Styling text on top of background img in table

[f7digitaldesign]

Hello everyone! I am currently coding an html email that needs to be built in tables. I've done a lot of these, but all of a sudden I'm stumped w/ some simple text styling. I want to put some text over a background image, but as I style it the block of text centers vertically by default (or so it seems). I can't seem to remember what attribute will pull it to the top. Thanks!

[Wickham]

If it's in a table cell, then use valign="top" like <td valign="top">.......</td> which stops cell content from centering vertically.