What is Vertical Align?
http://css-tricks.com/what-is-vertical-align/

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CSS has a property called vertical align. It can be a bit confusing when you first learn about it, so I thought we could go through it’s use a little bit. The basic usage is like this:

Includes workable solution for IE < 8.

Max Design - standards based web design, development and training » Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property - http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2008/10/05/vertical-align/

You can change the vertical position of images in relation to the surrounding text using the CSS vertical-align property. The various properties that can be used include: top, text-top, middle, baseline, text-bottom, bottom, sub, super, percentage and length

useful read for aligning small images/icons with text.

Vertical alignment, much more elegant than how I've previously seen it done

欧文フォントの高さの概念が参考になる

In this tutorial, we will see how to center align: horizontaly an element with a fixed width horizontaly an element with no specific width verticaly an element with a fixed height verticaly an element with no specific height horizontally and vertically an element with fixed measure horizontally and vertically an element with no specific measure horizontally and vertically a single line of text

KATHERINE TYLER- This is good if you are having trouble placing your images where you want them to go with CSS.