Help With list-style-image - css

Question

I have set an image 32x32px as a list style image like this:
.class li{
list-style-image:url(../images/site/img.png);
}
It works great but the problem is the text is on the bottom of the list item (because the image is 32px high the list item is also 32px high). I would like to have the text vertically centered so it looks good.
I tried:
.class li{
line-height:1em;
}
But that didn't help.

Answer 1

You can use the vertical-align property to specify centered alignment. Like so:
.class li {
vertical-align: middle;
}

Answer 2

The list-style-image tag should be applied to the list itself, and not the list item as you have. So it would be..
ul.class{
list-style-image:url(../images/site/img.png);
}

Answer 3

I find it rather difficult to get the image exactly to where I want when relying only on list-style to do the work.
Therefore I prefer placing the image as background inside the LI tag like so
ul {list-style-type:none}
ul li {list-style-type:none;
background:url(image.png) 1px 4px no-repeat;
margin:0;
padding-left:20px}
This results in the image being placed 1 pixel to the right and 4 pixels to the bottom measured from the top left corner of the area covered by the LI tag. margin:0 is required to avoid indentation of the LI contents, as we do this with the padding:20px to make room for the image to the left of the LI contents.

Answer 4

I tried all of the above and nothing worked so I did this
.coreUL li{
display:block;
list-style:none;
background-image:url(../images/factoryIcons.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:left 8px;
padding-top:10px;
padding-left:50px;
height:100px;
}
Now that works like a charm -- infact this also gives me more control on the exact place where i wanted to put my li images . The images I used were 32 X 32 px in size so I gave them a little extra padding by making that 50px;
i hope this helps.

Answer 5

Setting your line-height to the height of the element will align text vertically. So if you <li> height is 32px then set your line-height to 32px.
.class li { height:32px; line-height:32px; list-style-image:url(img.png); }

Answer 6

#mindmyweb, yes indeed your solution works. But your example was a bit too decorated with 100px high lines, so here is a more modest example.
The image should be a 20x20 png bullet, centered, wıth bevel etc, with 3px shadow edge area.
.post li, .page li {
background-image: url("images/bullet-square-big-red.png");
background-position: left 2px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
list-style: none outside none;
margin-bottom: 12px;
padding-left: 25px;
padding-top: 0;
}
Works exactly same in firefox 24, chrome 30, ie>=7.