My inline-block elements are not lining up properly

Question

All of the elements within .track-container should line up nice and in line, each side by side, constrained by the 200px height they've been given with no weird margins or padding. Instead, you have the strangeness that occurs in the aforementioned fiddle.

What is causing .album-artwork and .track-info to get pushed halfway down the page, and how can I fix it? Also, I acknowledge that a table may be a better way of approaching this whole setup, but I want to figure out the problem from the code above so I can learn from this mistake.

.track-container {      padding:0;      width: 600px;      height: 200px;      border: 1px solid black;      list-style-type: none;      margin-bottom: 10px;  }    .position-data {      overflow: none;      display: inline-block;      width: 12.5%;      height: 200px;      margin: 0;      padding: 0;      border: 1px solid black;  }    .current-position, .position-movement {      height: 100px;      width: 100%;      margin: 0;      padding: 0;      border: 1px solid black;  }    .album-artwork {      display: inline-block;      height: 200px;      width: 20%;      border: 1px solid black;  }    .track-info {      display: inline-block;      padding-left: 10px;      height: 200px;      border: 1px solid black;  }

<div class="track-container">      <div class="position-data">          <div class="current-position">1</div>          <div class="position-movement">2</div>      </div>      <div class="album-artwork">fdasfdsa</div>      <div class="track-info">fdafdsa</div>  </div>

Here's a JSFiddle.

Answer 1

10.8 Line height calculations: the 'line-height' and 'vertical-align' properties

The baseline of an 'inline-block' is the baseline of its last line box in the normal flow, unless it has either no in-flow line boxes or if its 'overflow' property has a computed value other than 'visible', in which case the baseline is the bottom margin edge.

This is a common issue involving inline-block elements. In this case, the default value of the vertical-align property is baseline. If you change the value to top, it will behave as expected.

Updated Example

.position-data {     vertical-align: top; }