Generally to vertically align a single line of text I use the line-height property and set it to the same as the element height. This is only reliable for block elements with only one line of text.
On Feb 4, 2008 9:05 AM, Adrian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Asking my CSS friend sat next to me, he says probably not, but more > importantly, why would you want this? :O) > > Adrian > > -----Original Message----- > From: ismail cassiem > Sent: 04 February 2008 13:14 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: vertical align the text within a text box > > > Hi, I need help please! > > I want to vertical align the text within a text box. > > I can set the vertical align of the text box but not the text. > > My text box has a style property of: style ="height : 20px; border : 1px > solid #CCCCCC;" > > but my text is to high on top in the text box > > > I tried the following: > text-align : center; - but that moves the text to the center > horizontally > vertical-align : sub; > > Please Asist! > > > Regards > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298049 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4

