Maybe we are misunderstanding each other, but while you don't need an "extra" container, you do need a container with some known height to vertically center th

Maybe we are misunderstanding each other, but while you don't need an "extra" container, you do need a container with some known height to vertically center the content in: http://jsfiddle.net/c20gq4pz/ http://jsfiddle.net/c20gq4pz/