<HTML> <HEAD> </HEAD> <BODY> <P>First paragraph</P> <P>Here is some regular paragraph text <SPAN style="position:relative;background-color:lightgreen"> The image (found or not) should be positioned at the top/left corner of this green-shaded text <IMG src=doesntmatterifthisexists.gif border=1 width=40 height=40 style="position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px"> </SPAN> Some more text. </P> <P>The image gets erroneously positioned to the top/left corner of the paragraph instead.</P> </BODY> </HTML>