Question

Given the following markup:

<ul>
    <li><span>One</span></li>
    <li><span>Two</span></li>
    <li><span>Three</span></li>
    <li><span>Four</span></li>
    <li><span>Five</span></li>
</ul>

And the following CSS:

body {
 font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
 font-size: 14px;
}

ul {
 list-style-type: none;
 padding: 0;
 margin: 0;   
}

li {
 border-bottom: 1px solid red;      
 float: left;
 margin-left: 10px;
 height: 70px; /* height of largest element */
}

span {
 font-weight: bold;
 display: block; /* important, needs to be block */
}

li:nth-child(2) {
 font-size: 2em;   
}

li:nth-child(3) {
 font-size: 3em;   
}

li:nth-child(4) {
 font-size: 4em;   
}

li:nth-child(5) {
 font-size: 5em;   
}

Where each list item contains text of a different size.

I would like to align each <span> element to the bottom of it’s parent <li> ensuring that the bottom borders also align.

Here is the jsfiddle of this not working.

Need to support IE8 > upwards.

Note: The items have to be floated

Answer 1

Remove float:left from li and add display:inline; vertical-align:bottom;

li {
 border-bottom: 1px solid red;      
 display:inline;  vertical-align:bottom;  
 margin-left: 10px;
 height: 70px; /* height of largest element */
}

DEMO