subscript and superscript for the same element

Question

Is there any way to add both subscript and and superscript to the same element? If I do

Sample Text<sub>Sub</sub><sup>Sup</sup>

the superscript appears after the subscript. One I idea I had is to do something like:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td rowspan='2' valign='center'>Sample Text</td>
        <td>Sup</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Sub</td>
    </tr>
</table>

It seems to do the job but is quite ugly. Any better ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This one is similar to CyberDudes approach, additionally it indents the following text depending on the width of sub and sup:

http://jsfiddle.net/jwFec/1/

Some text <span class="supsub"><sup>sup</sup><sub>sub</sub></span> followed by other text.<br />

<style>
.supsub {
    display: inline-block;
}

.supsub sup,
.supsub sub {
    position: relative;
    display: block;
    font-size: .5em;
    line-height: 1.2;
}

.supsub sub {
    top: .3em;
}
</style>