Vertically centering text inside a div

[oracleguy]

I'm having trouble vertically centering some text inside a div using CSS.

I tried using vertical-align but that doesn't seem to help. I could use a span and set the top property of it but that is rather "fixed" and it would have to be tweaked for different size fonts.

Any ideas?

[cheesebagpipe]

vertical-align is for text alignment within one line, not within a block-level element. Here's a popular workaround, until W3C get this one standardized:

http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd0103.htm#toptip

[oracleguy]

Thanks! That did the trick.

[wac]

thanx, that did the trick