vertical-align

How to vertically center a child element of arbitrary size inside a floated parent element (of known size)?

Well, the title says it all. How to vertically center a child element of arbitrary size inside a floated parent element (of known size)? display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; no longer seems to work when the element is floated. I created an SSCCE here: http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/center-vertically-inside-float Without float, e...

Vertically aligning a Div using jQuery to set margin-top

Hi! Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong... I am using the following to vertically align a div by setting the margin-top, using the (window).height. 625 is the height of the Div being centered... This works in Firefox but IE7 doesn't set the margin-top until you resize the browser window. The test site is at http://guylloyd.co....

Vertical Aligning some text in a block <a> tag

Hi guys. I need a css gunu out there to help me with this one. Right I have an a tag which is a block element fixed width and height. Within it is a background image and the images title. I'm trying to align the text to the bottom and I'm getting no where. I've tried doing display:table-cell; vertical-align:bottom; and all manner of di...

Spacing differences between IE7 and Firefox/Opera/Chrome

I have an ongoing issue with the amount of vertical space of unordered lists in IE7 vs. Firefox/Chrome/Opera and I can't seem to find a solution out there. In IE7, the space is less and what I would like to see. In Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, the space between is about twice as much. I can't account for any of the spacing issues in my...

Add centered text to the middle of a <hr/>-like line

I'm wondering what options one has in xhtml 1.0 strict to create a line on both sides of text like-so: Section one ----------------------- Next section ----------------------- Section two I've thought of doing some fancy things like this: <div style="float:left; width: 44%;"><hr/></div> <div style="float:right; width: 44%;"><hr/></d...

Webkit ignores vertical-align for inline-blocks containing line-boxes

When Webkit (Safari, Chrome) encounters an inline-block where... the line-height height is specified the content is rendered using multiple line-boxes ...the inline-block element ignores the specified vertical-align. To help illustrate the problem, I have a small test case: http://arther.net/lab/webkit-vertical-align-test.html#test ...

“vertical-align: middle” on table cells does not align to the middle with AlphaImageLoader in IE6

I'm trying to align some text on table cells with a PNG Transparent background, I uses the filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader() to fix this in IE6. But the text does not align to the middle with the style filter: CSS: .fh { font-family:SimSun; font-size:12px; overflow:hidden; padding:0 2px 2px; text-align:left; v...

Vertical align image within parent div with css

So I'm trying to vertical align images within a container div. I tried adding vertical-align: middle; to the parent div with no luck. <div class="contributor_thumbnail"><img src="image.jpg"></div> <div class="contributor_thumbnail"><img src="image.jpg"></div> .contributor_thumbnail { position: relative; display: block;...

How to vertical-align to x-height?

I have a line of text and a small image, which I am trying to align vertically within the line. My goal is to align the vertical center of the image with the x-height (or half of the height of a capital letter) from the baseline of the text. I can't figure out any way to do this. The closest thing that I know of is: vertical-align: midd...

How can I vertically align a <table> in the middle of a fixed height <div>?

Hi my dear friends. Why does the code below not cause the <table> to be vertically-aligned in the middle of the <div>? <div style="width: 850px; height: 470px;vertical-align: middle;" align="center"> <table style="padding-left: 20px; width: 700px; border: 10px groove #0033CC; background-color: #F9F9F9;"> <tr> ...