ASP.NET - Text Alignment - asp.net

Question

I've got an alignment issue:
What I need is for the 'Delete Reasons' text to be vertically aligned, centered with the red 'X'. I tried using a div tag with CSS and style="verticalalign: middle;" but it forced 'Delete Reasons' to go underneath the 'X'.
How can I vertically center the text? Any help is greatly appreciated!
PS - Here's the code:
<tr>
<td class="style7" valign="middle">
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:ImageButton ID="ibClearReasons" runat="server" Height="30px" Width="30px" ImageUrl="~/Images/DeleteRed.png" AlternateText="Delete" />Delete Reasons
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</td>
<td class="style6">
<asp:LinkButton ID="SendToBatch" runat="server" BackColor="#20548E" BorderColor="#20548E" BorderStyle="Solid" Font-Names="Tahoma" Font-Size="Small" Font-Underline="False"
ForeColor="White" Height="16px" Width="85px" EnableViewState="True" CausesValidation="False"><center>Send To Batch</center></asp:LinkButton>    
</td>
</tr>
EDIT: CSS Style 7:
.style7
{
text-align: left;
vertical-align: middle;
}

Answer 1

You have to set the vertical-align attribute on the element: http://jsfiddle.net/rkw79/Zs5AH/
There is a good chance that it will still look off if the img height is small. For issues like that, you would need to wrap 'delete reasons' inside a <span> tag and give it a padding-top attribute.

Answer 2

Try this...
<td class="style7" valign="middle">
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<div style="float:left;margin:0px 4px;width:30px;">
<asp:ImageButton ID="ibClearReasons"
runat="server"
Height="30px"
Width="30px"
ImageUrl="~/Images/DeleteRed.png"
AlternateText="Delete" />
</div>
<div style="float:left;height:30px;padding:6px 0px;width:100px;">
Delete Reasons
</div>
<div style="clear:both"></div>
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</td>
You may have to play with the padding and/or width on the second div to get it to be just right. If this works, you can simply move the inline styles to a css file with class names (div.className) HTH