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HTML

<div>
  <span class="simulatedImage"></span>
  Some Text
</div>

CSS

div
{
  line-height: 50px; 
  border: 1px solid black;
  font-size: 1.5em;
}
span.simulatedImage
{ 
    height: 12px; 
    width: 12px; 
    background: red;
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;
}