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I'm puzzled by the following problem. I wish to (absolutely) position the baseline of some piece of HTML text at a certain y-coordinate, while the text should be starting at a certain x-coordinate. The following diagram clearly demonstrates the issue.
So I basically want to control where the point (x,y), henceforth called the "basepoint", in the diagram is located on the screen, relative to the top-left corner of the BODY of the document or some DIV. Important: I don't know beforehand what the font-family or font-size of the text is. This is important, because I don't want to change all the positions in my CSS whenever I change fonts.
In the following code, I try to position the basepoint at (200,100), but instead it positions the top-left of the DIV at that point.
<html>
<style>
BODY
{
position: absolute;
margin: 0px;
}
#text
{
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 200px;
font-family: helvetica, arial; /* may vary */
font-size: 80px; /* may vary */
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="text">css=powerful</div>
</body>
</html>
So how should I modify this code? Should I use the vertical-align property of the enclosing DIV? (I tried, but couldn't get the desired result).
Thanks for any useful replies.
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An absolutely positioned element is an element whose computed position value is absolute or fixed . The top , right , bottom , and left properties specify offsets from the edges of the element's containing block. (The containing block is the ancestor relative to which the element is positioned.)
Use the text-align property to align the inner content of the block element. Use the bottom and left properties. The bottom property specifies the bottom position of an element along with the position property. The left property specifies the left position of an element along with the position property.
Hacky solution based on this blog post.
HTML:
<body>
<div id="text">css=powerful</div>
</body>
CSS:
body {
margin: 0;
}
#text {
font-size: 30px;
line-height: 0px;
margin-left: 100px;
}
#text:after {
content: "";
display: inline-block;
height: 120px;
}
JsFiddle. The basepoint is aligned to (100, 120).
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