Vertically align text within input field of fixed-height without display: table or padding?

The line-height property usually takes care of vertical alignment, but not with inputs. Is there a way to automatically center text without playing around with padding?

Solution 1:

I ran into this problem myself. I found that not specifying an input height, but using the font-height and padding combined, results in vertically aligned text.

For instance, lets say you want to have a 42px tall input box, with a font-size of 20px. You could simply find the difference between the input height and the font-size, divide it by two, and set your padding to that amount. In this case, you would have 22px total worth of padding, which is 11px on each side.

<input type="text" style="padding: 11px 0px 11px 0px; font-size: 20px;" />

That would give you a 42px tall input box with perfect vertical alignment.

Hope that helps.

Solution 2:

I've not tried this myself, but try setting:

height : 36px; //for other browsers
line-height: 36px; // for IE

Where 36px is the height of your input.