CSS to vertically align text to middle of div

Question

What is the correct way to force text in a div to vertically align to the middle? I have found a couple \'tricks\', but I need something that works with a single line and multip

Answer 1

Most of these solutions wouldn't work for me because either the height was manually specified (which I couldn't do) or things like inline-block and float would remove the ability for the an inner div to inherit the parent div's height. I ended up creating a table with two columns each containing my divs and then I had no issues vertically centering text.