Plain Text in Vertical Alignment in HTML

How to set any pla开发者_如何学运维in text in Vertical Alignment in HTML?

The CSS property vertical-align ist only either for vertical alignment in table cells or for vertical alignment of inline elements to each other.

There is no real vertical centering in CSS, but there way to "work around" it:

http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html

More alternatives: http://www.google.com/search?&q=css+vertical+centering

<div style="vertical-align: top;">plain text</div>