Question

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html

<div class="client-box">
  <div class="box-header clearfix">
    <h6 class="pull-left">General Information</h6>
    <button class="btn btn-small pull-right"><i class="icon-pencil"></i> Edit</button>
  </div>
  <p>box content</p>
</div>

How can I get the header <h6> vertically-centered with respect to the Edit button?

Putting vertical-align on the box-header doesn’t work. I don’t want to hard-code a line-height because I might change the button sizing or something later and then it will break.

Answer 1

You could use css display: table and display: table-cell and vertical-align: middle.

HTML

<div class="box-header clearfix">
    <div class="left-cell">
        <h6>General Information</h6>
    </div>
    <div class="right-cell">
        <button class="btn btn-small"><i class="icon-pencil"></i> Edit</button>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.box-header {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #aac7ef;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
    display: table;
    width: 100%;
}
.left-cell {
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: middle;
}
.right-cell {
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: middle;
    text-align: right;
}

Demo