Vertically align floating divs

Question

I am trying to float two divs with different font-sizes. I can\'t find a way to align the text on the same baseline. Here is what I have been trying:

Answer 1

You can do this using line-height but it only works on inline elements and if the text does not wrap.

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I changed the div to span. If you want to keep div just add display:inline to your style.

    
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