On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:12:55 -0400, Gus Richter
<gusrichter@netscape.net> wrote:

>Or make the img vertical-align:bottom;

Just as a follow-up point here:

This solution works OK but I'm slightly surprised that an equivalent
space doesn't then appear at the top of the box (ie what one might
think of as an ascender space). It's as if by using
vertical-align:bottom then the bounding box is actually made shorter
(ie less tall) and not simply that the img is bottom-aligned rather
than top-aligned. Is this just how the browser engines are designed to
work, ie the process is not symmetrical top-to-bottom?