How to align a div to the top of its parent but keeping its inline-block behaviour?

Question

See: http://jsfiddle.net/b2BpB/1/

Q: How can you make box1 and box3 align to the top of the parent div boxContainer?

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Answer 1

Try the vertical-align CSS property.

#box1 {
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    background: #999;
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: top; /* here */
}

Apply it to #box3 too.

Answer 2

As others have said, vertical-align: top is your friend.

As a bonus here is a forked fiddle with added enhancements that make it work in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 too ;)

Example: here

Answer 3

You can add float: left; for each of the boxes (box1, box2, box3).

http://jsfiddle.net/Wa4ma/

Answer 4

Use vertical-align:top; for the element you want at the top, as I have demonstrated on your jsfiddle.

http://www.brunildo.org/test/inline-block.html

Answer 5

Or you could just add some content to the div and use inline-table