Question

So I have a basic navigation list bar. However some of the items have two lines of text.

I’d like to vertical-align:middle the text, while still being able to hover and click in the list block.

HTML:

<div class="nav">
<ul>
    <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="/">Some Text</a></li> 
    <li><a href="/">Double<br>Line</a></li> 
    <li><a href="/">Something</a></li>  
</ul>
</div>

CSS:

.nav li {
    float: left;
}

.nav a {
    background: #000;
    display: block;
    padding: 10px;
    text-decoration: none;
    border-right: 2px solid #fff;
    font-size: 14px;
    text-align: center;
    color: #fff;
}
.nav a:hover {
    background: yellow;
    color: #000;
}

This probably explains it best: http://jsfiddle.net/ZmpXM/

Cheers

Answer 1

It’s not dynamic, but you can achieve that by adding

height: 34px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;

to your .nav a style

http://jsfiddle.net/ZmpXM/1/