superscript, without shifting the line of text

Any way to integrate a superscript without having it "shift" vertically to compensate? It looks rather ugly if you have a superscripted character in the middle of a sentence, that is in the middle of a paragraph. Looks something like this:

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Where - is a "normal" character, and ^ is a superscripted character.

have you removed the padding and margins of the superscript part?

Yes:

okay now I see what's happening ... I am still looking at a way to remove the space ... Nothing yet ...

If you are just using some very common superscript characters you can try using the html character entity references - they never shift line spacing.

Um, you mean go?:



Because I tried it and it still shifts.

Nope. For example, if you wanted a supercript 2 you would just write the entitiy reference ² - as in "squared". The same for the "cube" 3 - ³. If your superscript text is any more complicated than that, then this technique is no good.

no ... like this

my reference: http://tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/

Both are fine. I use a superscript 2 on very nearly every page of my site. I've never had an issue with line-height doing it this way as opposed to ².

What about: http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/superscripts.html

None of those work, since I'm superscripting the registered sign.

Ok.

What about wrapping the registered sign in <sup>'s, like so: ^&reg; and making the font-size of sup elements in your css a little smaller than the font-size of the other text. I've just done this as a test and it seems to work well.

I'm doing:



The sup class has a font size of 9, while the text around it has font size of 11. It minimizes the effect, but it's still there. I'd even go font size 8, but the registered symbol becomes very small, fuzzy, and unreadable.

Yeah, it gets too blurry.

I had a font-size: 0.80 em on the text and 0.78 em on the superscript and could hardly see any difference in the line spacing - it was still there a little bit though (I don't think anyone would notice unless they really studied it). Any lower on the font size and the spacing issue was gone but the symbol too messy.

You've probably got it about as best as you are going to get it. Try asking a friend if they notice anything odd with the text - it may not be as obvious to them since they don't know what they are looking for.

how about a negative padding/margin?