Vertical align in header elements

Question

I know this got asked a lot here, but all the methods I am trying seem not to work for my code for some reason.

I want to vertically align the text in the elements

HTML:

<div id="mainWrapper">
    <div id="header"> 
        <div id="logo" class="headerElements">
            <h:outputText class="headerText" value="RedPrice" />
        </div>
        <div id="login" class="headerElements">
            <h:outputText class="headerText" value="Login" />
        </div>
        <div id="register" class="headerElements">
            <h:outputText class="headerText" value="Register" />
        </div>
        <div id="follow" class="headerElements">
            <h:outputText class="headerText" value="Follow us" />
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

*{
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}

body,html {
    height: 100%;
    font-family: 'Quicksand', sans-serif;
}

div#mainWrapper {
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    background: url(../images/women.jpg) no-repeat center center;
}

div#header {
    width: 100%;
    height: 5%;
    background: white;
    opacity: 0.5;
}

div.headerElements {
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    width: 10%;
    text-align: center;
}

div.headerElements:hover {
    background: orangered;
    opacity: 0.5;
}

.headerText {
    font-size: x-large; 
}

http://jsfiddle.net/E7DAe/

What I have already tried: (unsuccesfully)

• setting line-height to 100% in headerElems
• setting display: table-cell
• putting it into a ul and lis and setting display:table and display:table-cell

Can somebody provide me with a solution?

Answer 1

You can use

div.headerElements:before {
    content: "";
    display: inline-block;
    height: 100%;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

Demo (Note: I have increased wrapper's height to see it better)

Based on http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/, read it for a full explanation.