subscript and superscript for the same element

Question

Hi,

Is there any way to add both subscript and and superscript to the same element? If I do

Sample Text<sub>Sub</sub><sup>Sup</sup>

the superscript appears after the subscript. One I idea I had is to do something like:

<table>
<tr><td rowspan='2' valign='center'>Sample Text</td><td>Sup</td></tr>
<tr><td>Sub</td></tr>
</table>

It seems to do the job but is quite ugly. Any better ideas?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Well, you can specify position of sup relative to Sample Text's right border.

http://jsfiddle.net/a754h/

Answer 2

I'm no CSS guru but you could try something along the lines of http://jsfiddle.net/TKxv8/1/

There are a lot of hardcoded values and the effects on other elements around may only be found afterwards but it's a good place to start.