Plain Text in Vertical Alignment in HTML

Question

How to set any plain text in Vertical Alignment in HTML?

Answer 1

<div style="vertical-align: top;">plain text</div>

Answer 2

The CSS property vertical-align ist only either for vertical alignment in table cells or for vertical alignment of inline elements to each other.

There is no real vertical centering in CSS, but there way to "work around" it:

http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html

More alternatives: http://www.google.com/search?&q=css+vertical+centering