CSS - How To Vertically Center Text For All Browsers.

Hi. I've the following and I couldn't have the right div to vertically align when the left div have multiple lines. I tried vertical-align:middle on the right div and doesn't work. And this is driving me crazy. I hope anyone can help me. Thank you.

<div style="width:800px">

<div style="width:730px;border:solid 1px red;float:left;">
LOTS OF CONTENT... MORE THAN 1 LINES
</div>

<div style="width:50px;float:right;border:solid 1px red;">
CLOSE LINK SHOULD BE HERE LATER
</div>

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

</div>

I have a horizontal nav menu I've created using <ul> and <li> inside a <div>

The problem is I can't get it to vertically center. I tried using padding and/or margin and it didn't work for all browsers.

Here is the html:
Code:

<div class="top_nav">
<ul>
<li><a href='/'>HOME</a></li>
<li><a href='menu'>MENU</a></li>
<li><a href='catering'>CATERING</a></li><li>DETAILS</li>
<li><a href='photos'>PHOTOS</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

and the CSS:
Code:

.top_nav {
	margin: 0 auto 15px auto;
    height: 25px;
    padding: 10px;
	clear: both;
}

.top_nav ul {
	list-style: none;
    text-align: center;
}

.top_nav li {
    padding: 0 25px;
    font-family: "Palatino Linotype", "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    font-size: 16px;
    font-weight: bold;
    display: inline;
    letter-spacing: 2px;
}

.top_nav li a {
    color: #FFF;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.top_nav li a:hover {
 	text-decoration: underline;
    border-bottom: 3px solid #660000;
}

It stays vertically positioned at the top

Hi I'm new so please bear with me...
My client wants his website (fixed height of 400px with scrolling text) in the center of the page. This is the site: wanteddesign.co.za/caffeverdi/index.html
As you can see it's centered in a large resolution but in 1024x768 it's not... how do I edit the CSS so it's displayed in the middle of the page?
another thing: the Facebook icon shows in the right place in my resolution but in the smaller resolution of 1024x768 it's in the middle of the page.

help help help pleaseeeeee, thanks!!!

How would I center an image vertically in a div that has varying height? Normally I would set a line-height and then a vertical-align but the container is of varying size dependent on content . The only way I can think of is to make the image a background and do background-position: center center;

Is that the only workaround?

Hi all,

I know there are certain tricks to vertically center texts or images in a div area.

And I have read somewhere there are plans to avoid current complexity compared with tables.

For example, provided I use same CSS...

Code:

div,table{
  width: 250px;
  height: 100px;
  border: 1px solid red;
  text-align: center;
}

...we optain well vertically centered text in this table...

Code:

<table>
  <tr><td>this IS vertically centered</td></tr>
</table>

...but not in this div based one...

Code:

<div>this IS NOT vertically centered</div>

I ask, do you know an easy way to acomplish the same we get with tables?

Thanks!

I'm trying to position the image below vertically center and horizontally left to no avail. Its horizontally left but centers the top of the image in the center of the page. What am I doing wrong?

<DIV style="position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 0px; border: none"><img src="images/right.jpg"></img></DIV>

I have a navigation bar that contains four images (side by side) as well as three text links. They all live within a <div> with the following properties:

#gNav {
width:768px;
height:19px;
text-align:left;
vertical-align:middle;
}


i need for the three text links to line up directly in the middle (vertically) of that <div>.

To achieve this in IE6 and NN+, I attach the following style to the text.

.nookum {
font-size:.9em;
vertical-align: 25%;
color:#FFFFFF;
}





I just learned that the vertical-align property is not recognized by IE5 and IE5.5, so in those versions, the text aligns at the bottom of the <div>.

Anyone know of any workarounds or other methods of vertically aligning text that will work in these two versions of IE?

zz

I am designing this page:

theticketsguide.com/sample

Scroll down to where the text reads, "Easy Navigation." I have (more or less) managed to vertically align this text with the image next to it, but I used padding instead of a cleaner, more exact "vertical-align" function. I've tried to put

vertical-align:middle

for the text, but it doesn't do anything. Any help as to what the right solution is to this? I don't want to use padding.

Thanks,

Brandon

Is there any way to make some text vertically aligned inside a DIV? Just like you would do inside a cell?

Code:

<table><td valign="middle" height="100">This text is vertically aligned</td></table>

Apparently, the vertically-align CSS property only works if it is relative to other DIVs. What I want is some vertically aligned text inside a DIV.

Thanks for the help.

How to get a text aligned vertically in a css button?

Using CSS, is it possible to vertically align centrally text to an image as you can using tables?

A simple example using a table would be

<table border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td><img border="0" src="image.gif" width="609"height="115"></td>
<td valign="middle">Ray did this</td>
</tr>
</table>

Using CSS so far I've got...

<p><img class="imglft" border="0" src="img.jpg" width="434" height="400" alt="my image">Ray did this>

The CSS for imglft is...

.imglft{
float: left;
margin-right: 30px;

}

I've tried putting the whole lot in a DIV and using text-align: middle and vertical-align: middle but that doesn't work.

You can see what I mean by comparing http://brisray.com/grad.htm or http://members.lycos.co.uk/brisray/grad.htm with http://brisray.com/ray/rgrad.htm or http://members.lycos.co.uk/brisray/ray/rgrad.htm

Ray

Greetings,

I've set an anchor tag to display:block and have set the height to 80px. Unfortunately, it seems I am unable to move the text associated within the hyperlink to the middle (vertically) of the block. Any ideas on how this can be done?

I need the text "world leaders in spirometry" to be on the same base line as the text in the logo image for Vitalograph to the left of it.

This is what I want it to look like image link

This is what does look like web page link

Here is the CSS css link

How can I get abosolute vertical placement of the text best for firefox and IE?

I know I could put the tage into the logo as one image, but for SEO I would like to have the text there if possible.

Thanks!

ok.

Ive been trying to use CSS to style my page instead of tables. but I cant get stuff to line up right.

basically I have a div spanning the whole width of a css box. inside that div I have 3 sections, one for left-aligned text, one for center aligned text and one for right aligned text.

what I want is to display on the far left a left arrow image (for use as a button) and the word 'Previous'. then in the middle of the div, center aligned, I want to display the words 'select a different draw' and on the right hand side, right aligned I want the word 'Next' followed by my right arrow. EASY PEASY I thought.

Well it has taken me an hour to realise that I have to set my parent element to position: relative for the left middle and right elements to use absolute without going to the very top of the page. so at least I now have them along in a line.

What I have found is that the the text on the left and right is vertically aligned to the BOTTOM edge of the image and the text in the middle has been vertically aligned to the TOP of the image despite all 4 css classes being defined as vertical-align: middle;

please tell me where I am going wrong, I'm loosing my marbles here!

--html:

Code:

	<div id="width-100">
		<div id="third-left">
			<img src="images/arrowleft.png" alt="foo"/>
			Previous
		</div>
		<div id="third-middle">
			Select a different draw
		</div>
		<div id="third-right">
			Next
			<img src="images/arrowright.png" alt="foo"/>
		</div>
	</div>

--css:
Code:

#third-left {
	width: 30%;
	text-align: left;
	vertical-align: middle;
	}
	
#third-middle {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0px;
	margin: 0 35% 0 35%;
	width: 30%;
	vertical-align: middle;
	text-align: center;
	}

#third-right {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0px;
	right: 0px;
	width: 30%;
	text-align: right;
	vertical-align: middle;
	}

#width-100 {
	width: 100%;
	position: relative;
	vertical-align: middle;
	background: white;
	}

any thoughts?

Thanks,
Ben