Top alignment of subfigure

Question

For some reason I'm not able to have a top alignment of figures using subfigure and the environmental option [t]. I have search the internet for solutions and found them pretty complex for such a simple and general problem... What is the simple solution?

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering

\begin{subfigure}[t]{.49\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\textwidth]{calCurve.pdf}
\caption{Caption 1}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}[t]{.49\linewidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.7]{anova.pdf}
\caption{Caption 2}
\end{subfigure}%
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Output

Check this: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/101858/make-two-figures-aligned-at-top — Ambika Vanchinathan, Apr 27 '15 at 09:13
Thank you. That will do it. I Guess the problem gets a bit more complicated if you the caption align as well... — Simon, Apr 27 '15 at 09:23
My very strong recommendation here is to use the excellent package subcaption. It is perfect for this. Check for the \subcaptionbox-command in section 4/page 6. — henry, Apr 27 '15 at 09:50
You may have come across a bug in the subcaption package when the draft or demo options are set. — Mico, Apr 27 '15 at 23:08
Related: Vertically align different size images in a figure* environment — Werner, Apr 28 '15 at 00:14
Related: Vertical alignment of two images of different vertical size — Werner, Apr 28 '15 at 00:14
@Mico Oh you are right. My intern must have overlooked that. :-) — henry, Apr 28 '15 at 09:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 27 '15 at 21:50

You could give floatrow a roll:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{caption,floatrow}

\DeclareCaptionSubType[alph]{figure}
\captionsetup[figure]{labelsep=colon}
\captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=brace,labelsep=space,labelfont=bf}
\floatsetup[subfigure]{capposition=bottom,heightadjust=all,valign=t}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htp]
  \ffigbox[\FBwidth]
  {\begin{subfloatrow}
      \ffigbox
        {\caption{First subfigure}}%
        {\rule{3cm}{3cm}}

        \ffigbox
        {\caption{Second subfigure with more Text so we have a line break}}%
        {\rule{1.5cm}{1.5cm}}
  \end{subfloatrow}}
  {\caption{Two figures}}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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Top alignment of subfigure

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