Questions tagged [baseline]
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How to vertically align 2 different sizes of text?
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…
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What's the deal with vertical-align: baseline?
I thought I knew my way around CSS, but I needed to explain something to someone just now and I found I couldn't.
My question basically boils down to: why is vertical-align:baseline ignored when there are other alignments in the same line?
Example:…
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WPF: Aligning the base line of a Label and its TextBox
Let's say I have a simple TextBox next to a Label:
MyText
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iPhone - App Rejected again, HTTP Live Streaming 64kbps baseline feed
Thank you for submitting APPNAME_HERE.
We have reviewed your application and
have determined that it cannot be
posted to the App Store at this time
because it is not using a baseline
stream of 64 kbps for the HTTP Live
Streaming…
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Align flex-box items to baseline of last text line in a block
I am trying to achive the last example on the following image, using flex-box.
From what I see, the align-items: baseline; property works great when the blocks only have 1 line.
The property align-items: flex-end; creates some issues mainly…
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tag makes height of paragraph larger
I have the following fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/tompazourek/sn5jp/
some normal-sized text
some small-sized text
p { line-height: 20px } When I inspect the page in Chrome, I find out that the computed height of the…
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What is the difference between alphabetic and ideographic in Flutter's TextBaseline enum
The TextBaseline enum in Flutter has two options:
alphabetic
ideographic
How do these values actually change the baseline?
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How to constrain a view to a UITextView's first baseline?
I'm desperately trying to constrain the first baselines of a UILabel and a UITextView in Interface Builder. From my understanding this should be quite easy by simply adding the following constraint (Pseudo-Code):
label.firstBaseline =…
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Calculate UITextField baseline position
I'm trying to programmatically align the baseline of an instance of UITextField with an instance of UIButton. I'm currently handling this calculation similar way described here, but with UITextField there can be an offset to the content. Any ideas…
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CSS vertical alignment and baseline position
I am new to CSS and recently reading the specification and having some problems in understanding the vertical-align property.
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How do I get the position of the text baseline in a Label and a NumericUpDown?
I'm trying to align a Label and a NumericUpDown by their text baselines. I'm doing it in code, rather than the designer. How do I get the position of the text baseline?
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PHP imagettftext baseline workaround
I am writing to print text to an image using PHP. However, the function imagettftext() uses the baseline, whereas I need the text vertically centered.
So, I either need a method to print text with y not the distance from top to baseline, but from…
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Any tools to export the whole Oracle DB as SQL scripts
Here is my problem, I wants to create a baseline on our development Dateabase (Oracle 10g), and check into our svn for version control, and after this we will use liquibase to help us manage the incremental database changes.
My problem is how…
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Align text baseline to bottom of div
I am trying to align the baseline of some text in a div to the very bottom edge of said div (such that characters like g and j would actually overflow the div)
I can only seem to align the bottom edge of the text element to the bottom edge of the…
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Aligning the baseline of field labels with the baseline of text in text inputs
I'm displaying text inputs next to some label text in a fieldset. I'd like the baseline of the text in the text inputs to line up with the baseline of the label text. I could set a fudge factor padding-top for my .label elements but the content of…
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