Why is vertical-align:text-top; not working in CSS

Question

I want to align some text to the top of a div. It seems that vertical-align: text-top; should do the trick, but it doesn\'t work. The other things that I have d

Answer 1

something like

  position:relative;
  top:-5px;

just on the inline element itself works for me. Have to play with the top to get it centered vertically...