How do I vertically align something inside a span tag?

Question

How do I get the \"x\" to be vertically-aligned in the middle of the span?

.foo {
    height: 50px;
    border: solid black 1px;
    display: inline-block;
          


        

Answer 1

CSS vertical center image and text

I have Create one demo for vertical image center and text also i have test on firefox ,chrome,safari, internet explorer 9 and 8 too.

It is very short and easy css and html, Please check below code and you can find output on screenshort.

HTML

<div class="frame">
    <img src="capabilities_icon1.png" alt="" />
</div>

CSS

  .frame {
        height: 160px;      
        width: 160px;
        border: 1px solid red;
        white-space: nowrap;
        text-align: center; margin: 1em 0;
    }

    .frame::before {
        display: inline-block;
        height: 100%;
        vertical-align: middle;
        content:"";
    }

    img {
        background: #3A6F9A;
        vertical-align: middle;
    }

Output enter image description here

Answer 2

The vertical-align css attribute doesn't do what you expect unfortunately. This article explains 2 ways to vertically align an element using css.

Answer 3

The flexbox way:

.foo {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    height: 50px;
}

Answer 4

Use line-height:50px; instead of height. That should do the trick ;)

Answer 5

This is the simplest way to do it if you need multiple lines. Wrap you span'd text in another span and specify its height with line-height. The trick to multiple lines is resetting the inner span's line-height.

<span class="textvalignmiddle"><span>YOUR TEXT HERE</span></span>

.textvalignmiddle {
    line-height: /*set height*/;
}

.textvalignmiddle > span {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;
    line-height: 1em; /*set line height back to normal*/
}

DEMO

Of course the outer span could be a div or whathaveyou

Answer 6

Set padding-top to be an appropriate value to push the x down, then subtract the value you have for padding-top from the height.