align middle

[liunx]

i have a menu and i want the text to be in the absolut middle of it but now it is always at the top.

how would align it to the middle.

CSS code.


#menu {
position: absolute;
top: 135px;
width: 150px;
}
#menu a {
display: block;
color: #677b92;
background-color: transparent;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
height: 15px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
padding-left: 0px;
text-decoration: none;
}
#menu a:hover {
color: #cc3333;
background-color: #f0f0f0;
}


i did try and add

vertical-align:middle

to #menu a but it did not work

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the HTML is


<div id="menu">
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</div>


can anyone helpTry playing around with the padding, perhaps by adding a padding-top to the #menu a style definitions.kDidn't think of this earlier, but what you can do is just set the line-height to the same number as the height, and it should center your text vertically.perfect