title: Vertically align symbols and text
body: <p>I have the word STARS followed by 5 stars (<code>&amp;#9733;</code>)</p>
  
  <p>The problem I have is that the stars are smaller than the word and I want them to vertically align, but can't figure out how.</p>
  
  <p>Here's what I'm trying: <a href="https://jsfiddle.net/p357agt2/">Fiddle here too</a></p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>html, body {
    font-size: 100%; /* for our beloved IE */
    font-size: 12px;
    line-height: 1.2em;
    color: #333;
  }
  h3 {
    font-size: 2em;
    line-height:1em;
    font-weight: 100;
  }
  .stars {
    opacity: 0.6;
    font-size: 0.7em;
    vertical-align: middle; /* &lt;-- I thought this would do it */
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;h3&gt;STARS &lt;span class="stars"&gt;&amp;#9733;&amp;#9733;&amp;#9733;&amp;#9733;&amp;#9733;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;</code></pre>
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