Vertically Align Floating Divs

CSS vertically align floating divs

You'll have no luck with floated elements. They don't obey vertical-align.

You need display:inline-block instead.

http://cssdesk.com/2VMg8

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Beware!

Be careful with display: inline-block; as it interprets the white-space between the elements as real white-space. It does not ignores it like display: block does.

I recommend this:

Set the font-size of the containing element to 0 (zero) and reset the font-size to your needed value in the elements like so

ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;
    font-size: 0;
}
ul > li {
    font-size: 12px;
}

See a demonstration here: http://codepen.io/HerrSerker/pen/mslay

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CSS

#wrapper{
  width:400px;
  height:auto;
  border:1px solid green;
  vertical-align: middle;
  font-size: 0;
}

#left-div{
  width:40px;
  border:1px solid blue;
  display: inline-block;
  font-size: initial;
  /* IE 7 hack */
  *zoom:1;
  *display: inline;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

#right-div{
  width:336px;
  border:1px solid red;
  display: inline-block;  
  font-size: initial;
  /* IE 7 hack */
  *zoom:1;
  *display: inline;
  vertical-align: middle;
}
  

Why doesn't vertical-align work properly when using float in CSS?

You need to set line-height.

<div style="border: 1px solid red;">
<span style="font-size: 38px; vertical-align:middle; float:left; line-height: 38px">Hejsan</span>
<span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align:middle; float:right; line-height: 38px">svejsan</span>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>

http://jsfiddle.net/VBR5J/

How to vertically middle-align floating elements of unknown heights?

You can't do this directly, because floats are aligned to the top:

If there is a line box, the outer top of the floated box is aligned
with the top of the current line box.

The exact rules say (emphasis mine):

4. A floating box's outer top may not be higher than the top of its containing block.
5. The outer top of a floating box may not be higher than the outer top of any block or floated box generated by an
   element earlier in the source document.
6. The outer top of an element's floating box may not be higher than the top of any line-box containing a box generated by an
   element earlier in the source document.

8. A floating box must be placed as high as possible.

That said, you can take advantage of rule #4:

• Place each float inside inline-level elements that establish a new block formatting context /BFC), e.g. display: inline-block.
• These wrappers will contain the floats because they establish a BFC, and will be one next to the other because they are inline-level.
• Use vertical-align to align these wrapper vertically.

Be aware that some space might appear between the inline-block wrappers. See How to remove the space between inline-block elements? to fix it.

.float-left {  float: left;}
.float-right {  float: right;}
#main {  border: 1px solid blue;  margin: 0 auto;  width: 500px;}
/* Float wrappers */#main > div {  display: inline-block;  vertical-align: middle;  width: 50%;}

<div id="main">  <div>    <div class="float-left">      <p>AAA</p>    </div>  </div>  <div>    <div class="float-right">      <p>BBB</p>      <p>BBB</p>    </div>  </div></div>

Vertically align 2 floating divs with flexible height

Here's how you could make it flexible (no fixed heights, just keep those .column containers vertically centered regardless of their content): set .column to display:inline-block and to vertical-align: middle inside your table-cell .wrap div.

.column {
    display: inline-block;
    width: 45%;
    height: auto;
    text-align: center;
    border: 1px solid black;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/VLRpc/2/

How to vertically align floating divs to the bottom?

This will do the trick:

#bars {
    display: table-cell;
    border: solid 1px black;
}
#bars > div {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    width: 5px;
    background-color: #999;
    margin-left: 2px;
}
#bars > div:first-child {
    margin-left: 0;
}

It uses display: table-cell; on the parent div, which by default has vertical-align: baseline; applied. This changes the need for float: left; on the child divs and allows us to use display: inline-block;. This also removes the need for your CSS clear fix.

EDIT - Per @thirtydot's comments, adding vertical-align: bottom; to the child divs removes the gap at the bottom.

Therefore, I changed CSS above and jsFiddle. I kept the display: table-cell; so that the parent div wraps the child divs with 0 padding and looks nice and snazzy!

How to get float:right button to vertically align in the middle

The cleanest way to do that is to use flex like this:

1. Add display: flex to your outer div panel-footer [Check code below]

2. Remove the float and use text-align:right on the span for the button. [Check code below]

3. Add align-self: center to the inner span. [Check code below]

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For 1:

.panel-footer {
    height: 70px;
    border: solid;
    display:flex;
}

For 2:

.header-footer-item {
        text-align: right;
}

For 3:

.header-footer-item {
    align-self: center;
}

jsFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/d1vrqkn9/4/

Vertically center a floating div

You can use position absolute (with left / right depending on what floats you need)

 .selector{
      position: absolute;
      top: 50%;
      -webkit-transform: translateY(-50%);
      -moz-transform: translateY(-50%);
      -ms-transform: translateY(-50%);
      -o-transform: translateY(-50%);
      transform: translateY(-50%);
 }

http://codepen.io/sebastianekstrom/pen/kzEhe

Vertically middle align floated contents

If you add

display: flex;
align-items: center;

to .main class, it should work.

.main {  height: 85px;  background-color: #f00;  /*position: absolute;*/  /*top: 2rem;*/  display: flex;  align-items: center;}
.child_1,.child_2 {  float: left;  width: 8rem;}

<div class="main">  <div style="display: inline-block;vertical-align: middle;">    <div class="child_1">      Some long text is put here    </div>  </div>  <div style="display: inline-block;vertical-align: middle;">    <div class="child_2">      22    </div>  </div></div>

Vertically center content of floating div

The others are right, you need to nest two DOM elements which gives you more options controlling the centering. Here's the code:

.floating {  display: table;  float: right;  height: 200px;  width: 400px;  border: 1px solid red;}.floating p {  display: table-cell;   vertical-align: middle;   text-align: center;}

<div class="floating">    <p>This is the proper way that validates and breaks across multiple    lines, if the text is longer than just a few words and still    should be vertically centered. Here, it's also horizontally    centered for added joy.</p></div>

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