How to add more padding to a field without affecting another field? - css

Question

I'm having the following code:
<a class="my-profile" href="link">
<div class="my-picture">[picture]</div>
<div class="my-fields">
<span class="my-name">[name]</span>
<span class="my-medal">[medal]</span>
</div>
</a>
It has the following theming:
.my-profile {
background-color: black;
color: white;
display: inline-block;
height: 35px;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
text-decoration: none;
}
.my-picture {
display: inline-block;
padding-top: 5px;
height: 25px;
width: 25px;
}
.my-fields {
display: inline-block;
font-size: 13px;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-top: 8px;
vertical-align: top;
}
.my-medal {
padding-left: 5px;
height: 16px;
width: 16px;
}
I'd like to add some more top padding to the medal field, but when I add padding-top: 5px to the .my-medal class, the name field is moved too.
Why does this happen and how can I prevent it?

Answer 1

Simply set vertical alignment to the top on both the .my-name and .my-medal elements:
.my-name, .my-medal {
vertical-align: top;
}
JSFiddle demo.
(Note that to show this working I've had to also specify display: inline-block as you haven't provided any styling for those two elements in your question).