I know that the JavaHelp HTML rendering is known to be poor/outdated but I would like to know if there is a workaround exists to fix the following problem. The following HTML fragment
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<div>
<span>This is a </span>
<img style="vertical-align:middle" src='./_LaTeX_cvode_solve.xml_1.png' />
<span>formula</span>
</div>
</body>
</html>
is wrongly rendered in JavaHelp by javax.help.SwingHelpUtilities:
the (correct) rendering in Firefox is the following
What are other ways (that could be supported by JavaHelp) to verticaly align an inline image w.r.t. text ? I have tested many popular ways but none worked so far. So if someone who has already struggled with JavaHelp may give some hints I would be very grateful.
Java Swing's support for CSS is very hit and miss. Here is the list of attributes supported (with notes):
So your best shot might be to use the actual HTML for the formula, with super and sub-script.
Note: Java-FX offers the
WebViewwhich (AFAIU) embeds an actual browser.