Vertical Alignment of text in a table cell

Question

Here\'s a portion of my table (it\'s a form):

Those are just two \'s in a <

Answer 1

I had the same issue but solved it by using !important. I forgot about the inheritance in CSS. Just a tip to check first.

Answer 2

td.description {vertical-align: top;}

where description is the class name of the td with that text in it

td.description {
  vertical-align: top;
}

<td class="description">Description</td>

OR inline (yuk!)

<td style="vertical-align: top;">Description</td>

Answer 3

CSS {vertical-align: top;} or html Attribute {valign="top"}

.table td, 
.table th {
    border: 1px solid #161b21;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 8px;
    width: 250px;
    height: 100px;
    
    /* style for table */
}

.table-body-text {
  vertical-align: top;
}

<table class="table">
    <tr>
      <th valign="top">Title 1</th>
      <th valign="top">Title 2</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td class="table-body-text">text</td>
      <td class="table-body-text">text</td>
    </tr>
   </table>

For table vertical-align we have 2 options.

1. is to use css {vertical-align: top;}

2. another way is to user attribute "valign" and the property should be "top" {valign="top"}

Answer 4

valign="top" should do the work.

<tr>
  <td valign="top">Description</td>
</tr>

Answer 5

Just add vertical-align:top for first td alone needed not for all td.

tr>td:first-child {
  vertical-align: top;
}

<tr>
  <td>Description</td>
  <td>more text</td>
</tr>

Answer 6

Try

td.description {
  line-height: 15px
}

<td class="description">Description</td>

Set the line-height value to the desired value.