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text,
texttop
and
top
have the same effect. Opera does not support
texttop
, whereas the other popular browsers treat it identically as
described.
center
Originally introduced by Internet Explorer, the
center
image align-
ment value gets treated by Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Fire-
fox exactly the same as they individually treat
middle
, which, as
you may recall, differs among the browsers. Opera, on the other
hand, ignores
align=center
altogether.
absmiddle
If you set the
align
attribute of the
<img>
tag to
absmiddle
, the
browser will fit the absolute middle of the image to the absolute
middle of the current line. This is different from the common
middle
and
center
options, which align the middle of the image with the
baseline of the current line of text (the bottom of the charac-
ters). Though Netscape and Opera do not distinguish
absmiddle
from
middle
alignments, Firefox and Internet Explorer use it to dif-
ferentially align images from their middle valuesin other words,
Firefox and Internet Explorer's
absmiddle
alignment is the same as
Netscape's
middle
.
bottom
and
baseline
(default)
The
bottom
and
baseline
image-alignment values have the same
effect as if you didn't include any alignment attribute at all: the
browsers align the bottom of the image in the same horizontal
plane as the baseline of the text. This is not to be confused with
absbottom
, which takes into account letter
descenders
. (Did we see
a hand up in the audience?)
absbottom
The
align=absbottom
attribute-value pair tells the browser to align
the bottom of the image with the true bottom of the current line