css single or multiple line vertical align

Question

I have a title that can have one or more lines.

How can I align the text vertically? If it was always one line I could just set the line-height to the container heig

Answer 1

For this you can use display:table-cell property:

.inline {
  display: inline-block;
  margin: 1em;
}
.wrap {
  display: table;
  height:  100px;
  width:   160px;
  padding: 10px;
  border:  thin solid darkgray;
}
.wrap p {
  display:        table-cell;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

  

    
Example of single line.
  



  

    
To look best, text should really be centered inside.
  

But it works IE8 & above. Read this article for more info: CSS Tricks: Vertically Center Multi-Lined Text.