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H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Oct 1, 2017 05:43 PM UTC:

Did you see my comment about using the vw unit instead of the px unit? That seems to be the solution.

As I understand the meaning of vw, this would make the size of the cells dependent on the size of the window of the client, while the piece images have a fixed size. That seems an infinitely worse problem than the one we are trying to solve. Of course you can get it right for one particular window size of one particular user, but everyone else would see crap, and even if the user to which it was tuned would size his window, his image would also be destroyed.

But I just had some success by setting font-size:xx-large . Which completely baffles me, as it is exactly the opposite of what I expect.

Tentative theory is that having a font size that is too small somehow prevents the normal work-arounds for making the bottom margin of images go away from working. (Which should be considered a browser bug, but it is strange that both FireFox and Chrome exhibit it.) Your typography change must have done something that brought us into the realm where things do not work as advertized. When you undid that change, I had already defined the font-size as an absolute 7px, which is very small, and thus also in the broken realm, and no longer affected by typography. With font-size:xx-large we now apparently have a font size where the vertical-align:top trick does work.


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