css - How to vertically align 2 different sizes of text?

Question

I know to vertically align text to the middle of a block, you set the line-height to the same height of the block.

However, if I have a sentence with a word in the middle, that is 2em. If the entire sentence has a line-height the same as the containing block, then the larger text is vertically aligned but the smaller text is on the same baseline as the larger text.

How can I set it so both sizes of text are vertically aligned, so the larger text will be on a baseline lower than the smaller text?

Answer 1

Try vertical-align:middle; on inline containers?

EDIT : it works but all your text must be in an inline container, like this :

    <div style="height:100px; line-height:100px; background:#EEE;">
        <span style="vertical-align:middle;">test</span>
        <span style="font-size:2em; vertical-align:middle;">test</span>
    </div>