Plus, based on the description and requirements of the problem it's likely to not be solved because the font-size is an unknown variable in the equation. If it was known how the font-size is determined and applied then maybe something could be leveraged to adjust for the problem.
The easy solution, knowing the font size, is to position a parent element at the coordinate and then move a child element containing the text upward an amount based on the font-size. That way the first line of text in the child element sits on the top line of the parent element, more or less. But we don't know the font-size and it is easily broken if the site is constantly being changed code-wise. In fact, a badly thought out line-height may break it as well.
Which leads me to ask how frequently and where he's changing his fonts. My design specs are usually pretty simple and consistent and would never require something like this.
At other times, we may want the user to define/select the font, and keep the baselines at the same position.
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