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Well, I'd use display:table-cell with vertical-align:middle.

Doesn't work without the parent having a defined height.

I found this a few days ago, I haven't tried it yet but it looks promising. http://snippetrepo.com/snippets/vertical-align-anything-with...

Did he make a typo?

Doesn't work, unless you change `position: relative` to `position: absolute`

Heres's a trick using pseudo elements : http://codepen.io/anon/pen/pIFna