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HTML

<div>qb - Some text - qb<span class="top"></span><span class="mid"></span><span class="bot"></span><span class="base"></span></div>

CSS

div {
    background-color: #9F9;
    height: 22px;
    line-height: 22px;
    font-size: 20px;
    font-family: 'Verdana', 'Arial';
}
span {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 10px;
  height: 1px;
  background: red;
}
span.mid {
  vertical-align: middle;
}
span.top {
  vertical-align: top;
}
span.bot {
  vertical-align: bottom;
}
span.base {
  vertical-align: baseline;
}