vspace attribute being stripped out

[tavianator]

I'm trying to get nicely right-aligned badges beside a heading, like this:

However, if I write this:

<div>
<a href="https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/actions/workflows/ci.yml">
<img src="https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg" alt="CI Status" align="right">
</a>
<h1><code>bfs</code></h1>
</div>

it looks like this:

bfs

(screenshot, just in case)

I tried to tweak it by adding vspace="16" to the <img> tag, but the attribute seems to be stripped out:

bfs

Not sure if GitHub is still using html-pipeline, but gjtorikian/html-pipeline#370 removes it from there.

Various old pages (e.g. link, link) list vspace as a supported attribute. Can we bring it back?

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