Vertical align all(!) elements in TD?

Question

I have a simple table with 1 TD with vertical-align:middle;. This TD contains an Image :

Answer 1

Is this what you mean? http://jsfiddle.net/JFVNq/

The reason is spans are treated as inline so you need to make them block.

CSS for the span:

td.vert span
{
    vertical-align: middle;
    display: block;
}