CSS Vertical Align Does Not Work with Float

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 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/

vertical-align:bottom WITH float:left

Vertical align only works with inline block elements, floated elements ignore the vertical align property.

Update the box class with the following:

.box {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    width:80px;
}

I would make them all inline block elements and remove the whitespace with one of these techniques.

Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9rcnLb8n/

Alternatively you could use flexbox with the align-self: flex-end; property.

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;
}
  

CSS vertical align puzzle with float right and variable line height

I upgraded your code, works fine with any number of rows (without tables).

http://jsbin.com/dufesexabu/1/edit?html,css,output

Spans vertical align with float

You can use display: inline-block; along with vertical-align: middle; on your <span> elements instead of float. This way they are positioned next to each other too and you can apply the vertical alignment:

.container span {  display: inline-block;  vertical-align: middle;}.text-1 {  padding-right: 10px;}.bar {  background-color: lightblue;  border-radius: 5px;  height: 5px;  width: 150px;}.text-2 {  padding-left: 10px;}

<div class="container">  <span class="text-1">Text 1</span>  <span class="bar"> </span>  <span class="text-2">Text 2</span></div>

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>

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>

Why is vertical-align: middle not working on my span or div?

Using CSS3:

<div class="outer">
   <div class="inner"/>
</div>

Css:

.outer {
  display : flex;
  align-items : center;
}

use "justify-content: center;" to align elements horizontally

Note: This might not work in old IE's

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