How to change vertical alignment of inline element? - css

Question

After checking similar questions to this, none of the recommended solutions worked for me. I am trying to align li elements to be vertically centered in their div:
HTML:
<div id="navi">
<ul id="navilist">
<li><a href="#home">
<img src="Images/homelnk.jpg" alt="Home"/></a></li>
<li>SGU</li>
<li>SGJR</li>
<li>REGISTRATION</li>
<!--<li>PHOTO GALLERY</li>-->
<li>SCHOLARSHIP</li>
<!--<li>CONTACT US</li>-->
<!--<li>SOCIAL MEDIA</li>-->
<li>MERCHANDISE</li>
<li>FORMS</li>
<li>PAY FOR SGU</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS:
#navi {
position: relative;
height: 50px;
width:auto;
background: #ed7a4f;
vertical-align:middle;
}
#navi li{
display: inline;
list-style-type:none;
padding: 0px 2px 5px 2px;
}
How would I maintain a horizontal list, but center the text vertically?

Answer 1

There's some tricks to getting vertical alignment to work. Here's a good stackoverflow answer about it. There's a good comment to the answer which explains why you need the empty span...
Well, I figured I'd offer you an alternative. You use an empty <span>
because vertical-align aligns elements relative to their siblings. If
an element has no siblings, it will not be vertically aligned.
I also made an update to your fiddle
Here's a snippet of the css:
span {
vertical-align: middle;
display: inline-block; }
ul{
margin:0; padding:0;
display:inline-block;
list-style-type:none;
vertical-align:middle; }
#navi {
height: 100px;
background: #ed7a4f;
}
#navi li{
display: inline-block;
padding: 5px; }

Answer 2

You don't need vertical alignment, you just need to reset your CSS and use padding. You need to adjust accordingly to the size of your image.
#navi {
background: #ed7a4f;
}
#navi ul, navi li {
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
}
#navi li {
display: inline-block;
}
#navi a {
display:block;
padding: 0px 5px 5px 5px;
}