CSS vertical alignment text inside li

Question

I am displaying number of boxes in a row with fix height and width, generated from

tags. now I need to align the text in the vertical center. The CSS vertical-a

Answer 1

Define the parent with display: table and the element itself with vertical-align: middle and display: table-cell.

Answer 2

Surprisingly (or not), the vertical-align tool actually works best for this job. Best of all, no Javascript is required.

In the following example, I am positioning the outer class in the middle of the body, and the inner class in the middle of the outer class.

Preview: http://jsfiddle.net/tLkSV/513/

HTML:

<div id="container">
    <span></span><div class="outer">
        <span></span><div class="inner">

        </div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

html, body {
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0; }
#container {
    text-align: center;
    height: 100%; }
span { 
    height: 100%;
    vertical-align: middle;
    display: inline-block; }
.outer {
    width: 100px;
    height: 200px;
    padding: 0;
    border: 1px solid #000;
    vertical-align: middle;
    display: inline-block; }
.inner {
    background: red;
    width: 30px;
    height: 20px;    
    vertical-align: middle;
    display: inline-block; }

Vertical align works by aligning the centers of elements that are next to each other. Applying vertical-align to a single element does absolutely nothing. If you add a second element that has no width but is the height of the container, your single element will move to vertically center with this no-width element, thus vertically centering it. The only requirements are that you set both elements to inline (or inline-block), and set their vertical-align attribute to vertical-align: middle.

Note: You may notice in my code below that my <span> tag and <div> tag are touching. Because they are both inline elements, a space will actually add a space between the no-width element and your div, so be sure to leave it out.

Answer 3

Give this solution a try

Works best in most of the cases

you may have to use div instead of li for that

.DivParent {
    height: 100px;
    border: 1px solid lime;
    white-space: nowrap;
}
.verticallyAlignedDiv {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;
    white-space: normal;
}
.DivHelper {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;
    height:100%;
}

<div class="DivParent">
    <div class="verticallyAlignedDiv">
        <p>Isnt it good!</p>
     
    </div><div class="DivHelper"></div>
</div>