<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>CSS Test: CSS Floats: Bottom Padding on Inline Children</title> <link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch"/> <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/box/float/025.xml" type="application/xhtml+xml"/> <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/box/float/025.html" type="text/html"/> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#floats" /> <link rel="match" href="floats-125-ref.xht" /> <style type="text/css"> /* reset everything to be sure we don't introduce oddities */ div { border: 0; padding: 0; margin: 0; line-height: 1; float: left; } span { border: 0; padding: 0; margin: 0; line-height: 1; display: inline; } /* the test */ body { margin-top: 12em; } div { background: red; } span.control { background: green; color: white; } span.test { padding-top: 10em; } </style> </head> <body> <div> <span class="test"><span class="control">There should be no red on this page.</span></span> </div> </body> </html>