I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the display:inline-block approach to vertical centering. It's a bit awkward for a couple reasons but it is responsive to dyna

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the display:inline-block approach to vertical centering. It's a bit awkward for a couple reasons but it is responsive to dynamic content (no fixed dimensions are required), and it does not require tables. It does require a non-semantic (albeit empty) "shim" div. I'm not sure how well it fares in Ye Olde IE 6.0 but hopefully this is not a concern to most webdevs today. Here's a jsfiddle to illustrate it. http://jsfiddle.net/qu5jq/ http://jsfiddle.net/qu5jq/