Vertical align span inside div [duplicate]

Question

http://jsfiddle.net/UmHNL/2/

<div class="container">

    <span>Some text, yay</span>

</div>

<div class="container">

    <span>Some text, yay. But shit time, there is alot of text, so we get a problem with breaking lines and the given height :( How can I align vertical now?</span>

</div>
<style>
.container {
    width: 100%;
    height: 50px;
    line-height: 50px;
    border: 1px solid black;
}

.container span {
    padding-left: 30px;
}
</style>

This solution works great until the screen-width is too small - breaking my text into several lines.

When I google the problem I find so many crazy over-complicated solutions with javascript and divs to push my content in place.. Can anyone help me make this work without adding more markup? :)

There's no need to support Internet Explorer and older browsers.

Thanks

Answer 1

You should try this:

.container {
    width: 100%;
    height: 50px;
    border: 1px solid black;
    display: table;
    text-align: center;
}

.container span {
    display: table-cell;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

Answer 2

Update you CSS to

.container {
  width: 100%;
  height: 50px;
  display: table-cell;
  border: 1px solid black;
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

.container span {
}