I have a div with two images and an h1. All of them need to be vertically aligned within the div, next to each other. One of the images needs to be absolute positioned within the div.
What is the CSS needed for this to work on all common browsers?
<div id="header">
<img src=".." ></img>
<h1>testing...</h1>
<img src="..."></img>
</div>
Wow, this problem is popular. It's based on a misunderstanding in the vertical-align property. This excellent article explains it:
Understanding vertical-align, or "How (Not) To Vertically Center Content" by Gavin Kistner.
“How to center in CSS” is a great web tool which helps to find the necessary CSS centering attributes for different situations.
In a nutshell (and to prevent link rot):
Inline elements (and only inline elements) can be vertically aligned in their context via vertical-align: middle. However, the “context” isn’t the whole parent container height, it’s the height of the text line they’re in. jsfiddle example
For block elements, vertical alignment is harder and strongly depends on the specific situation:
If the inner element can have a fixed height, you can make its position absolute and specify its height, margin-top and top position. jsfiddle example
If the centered element consists of a single line and its parent height is fixed you can simply set the container’s line-height to fill its height. This method is quite versatile in my experience. jsfiddle example
… there are more such special cases.
Now that Flexbox support is increasing, this CSS applied to the containing element would vertically center all contained items (except for those items that specify the alignment themselves, e.g. align-self:start)
.container {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
Use the prefixed version if you also need to target Internet Explorer 10, and older (< 4.4 (KitKat)) Android browsers:
.container {
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-ms-flex-align: center;
-webkit-align-items: center;
-webkit-box-align: center;
align-items: center;
}
I used this very simple code:
div.ext-box { display: table; width:100%;}
div.int-box { display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; }
<div class="ext-box">
<div class="int-box">
<h2>Some txt</h2>
<p>bla bla bla</p>
</div>
</div>
Obviously, whether you use a .class or an #id, the result won't change.
.outer {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
It worked for me:
.vcontainer {
min-height: 10em;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Vertically and horizontally align element
Use either of these. The result would be the same:
Bootstrap 4
CSS3
1. Bootstrap 4.3+
For vertical alignment: d-flex align-items-center
For horizontal alignment: d-flex justify-content-center
For vertical and horizontal alignment: d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center
.container {
height: 180px;
width:100%;
background-color: blueviolet;
}
.container > div {
background-color: white;
padding: 1rem;
}
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css"
rel="stylesheet"/>
<div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center container">
<div>I am in Center</div>
</div>
2. CSS 3
.container {
height: 180px;
width:100%;
background-color: blueviolet;
}
.container > div {
background-color: white;
padding: 1rem;
}
.center {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
<div class="container center">
<div>I am in Center</div>
</div>
A technique from a friend of mine:
div:before {content:" "; display:inline-block; height:100%; vertical-align:middle;}
div p {display:inline-block;}
<div style="height:100px; border:1px solid;">
<p style="border:1px dotted;">I'm vertically centered.</p>
</div>
Demo here.
To position block elements to the center (works in Internet Explorer 9 and above), it needs a wrapper div:
.vcontainer {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
-webkit-transform: translateY(-50%);
}
Use this formula, and it will work always without cracks:
#outer {height: 400px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;}
#outer[id] {display: table; position: static;}
#middle {position: absolute; top: 50%;} /* For explorer only*/
#middle[id] {display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; width: 100%;}
#inner {position: relative; top: -50%} /* For explorer only */
/* Optional: #inner[id] {position: static;} */
<div id="outer">
<div id="middle">
<div id="inner">
any text
any height
any content, for example generated from DB
everything is vertically centered
</div>
</div>
</div>
All of them need to be vertically aligned within the div
Aligned how? Tops of the images aligned with the top of the text?
One of the images needs to be absolute positioned within the div.
Absolutely positioned relative to the DIV? Perhaps you could sketch out what you're looking for...?
fd has described the steps for absolute positioning, as well as adjusting the display of the H1 element such that images will appear inline with it. To that, i'll add that you can align the images by use of the vertical-align style:
#header h1 { display: inline; }
#header img { vertical-align: middle; }
...this would put the header and images together, with top edges aligned. Other alignment options exist; see the documentation. You might also find it beneficial to drop the DIV and move the images inside the H1 element - this provides semantic value to the container, and removes the need to adjust the display of the H1:
<h1 id=header">
<img src=".." ></img>
testing...
<img src="..."></img>
</h1>
Almost all methods needs to specify the height, but often we don't have any heights.
So here is a CSS 3 three-line trick that doesn't require to know the height.
.element {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
It's supported even in IE9.
with its vendor prefixes:
.element {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
-webkit-transform: translateY(-50%);
-ms-transform: translateY(-50%);
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
Source: Vertical align anything with just 3 lines of CSS
Three ways to make a center child div in a parent div
Absolute positioning method
Flexbox method
Transform/translate method
Demo
/* Absolute Positioning Method */
.parent1 {
background: darkcyan;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
position: relative;
}
.child1 {
background: white;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin: -15px;
}
/* Flexbox Method */
.parent2 {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
background: darkcyan;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
}
.child2 {
background: white;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
}
/* Transform/Translate Method */
.parent3 {
position: relative;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
background: darkcyan;
}
.child3 {
background: white;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
<div class="parent1">
<div class="child1"></div>
</div>
<hr />
<div class="parent2">
<div class="child2"></div>
</div>
<hr />
<div class="parent3">
<div class="child3"></div>
</div>
My trick is to put a table inside the div with one row and one column, set 100% of width and height, and the property vertical-align:middle:
<div>
<table style="width:100%; height:100%;">
<tr>
<td style="vertical-align:middle;">
BUTTON TEXT
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
Fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/joan16v/sbqjnn9q/
Using display flex, first you need to wrap the container of the item that you want to align:
<div class="outdiv">
<div class="indiv">
<span>test1</span>
<span>test2</span>
</div>
</div>
Then apply the following CSS content to wrap div or outdiv in my example:
.outdiv {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
Using CSS to vertical center, you can let the outer containers act like a table, and the content as a table cell. In this format your objects will stay centered. :)
I nested multiple objects in JSFiddle for an example, but the core idea is like this:
HTML
<div class="circle">
<div class="content">
Some text
</div>
</div>
CSS
.circle {
/* Act as a table so we can center vertically its child */
display: table;
/* Set dimensions */
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
/* Horizontal center text */
text-align: center;
/* Create a red circle */
border-radius: 100%;
background: red;
}
.content {
/* Act as a table cell */
display: table-cell;
/* And now we can vertically center! */
vertical-align: middle;
/* Some basic markup */
font-size: 30px;
font-weight: bold;
color: white;
}
The multiple objects example:
HTML
<div class="container">
<div class="content">
<div class="centerhoriz">
<div class="circle">
<div class="content">
Some text
</div><!-- content -->
</div><!-- circle -->
<div class="square">
<div class="content">
<div id="smallcircle"></div>
</div><!-- content -->
</div><!-- square -->
</div><!-- center-horiz -->
</div><!-- content -->
</div><!-- container -->
CSS
.container {
display: table;
height: 500px;
width: 300px;
text-align: center;
background: lightblue;
}
.centerhoriz {
display: inline-block;
}
.circle {
display: table;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
text-align: center;
background: red;
border-radius: 100%;
margin: 10px;
}
.square {
display: table;
height: 200px;
width: 200px;
text-align: center;
background: blue;
margin: 10px;
}
.content {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
font-size: 30px;
font-weight: bold;
color: white;
}
#smallcircle {
display: inline-block;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
background: green;
border-radius: 100%;
}
Result
https://jsfiddle.net/martjemeyer/ybs032uc/1/
I have found a new workaround to vertically align multiple text-lines in a div using CSS 3 (and I am also using bootstrap v3 grid system to beautify the UI), which is as below:
.immediate-parent-of-text-containing-div {
height: 50px; /* Or any fixed height that suits you. */
}
.text-containing-div {
display: inline-grid;
align-items: center;
text-align: center;
height: 100%;
}
As per my understanding, the immediate parent of text containing element must have some height.
We may use a CSS function calculation to calculate the size of the element and then position the child element accordingly.
Example HTML:
<div class="box">
<span>Some Text</span>
</div>
And CSS:
.box {
display: block;
background: #60D3E8;
position: relative;
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
text-align: center;
}
.box span {
font: bold 20px/20px 'source code pro', sans-serif;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 0;
top: calc(50% - 10px);
}
a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
}
Demo created here: https://jsfiddle.net/xnjq1t22/
This solution works well with responsive div height and width as well.
Note: The calc function is not tested for compatiblity with old browsers.
Using only a Bootstrap class:
div: class="container d-flex"
element inside div: class="m-auto"
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.5.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" crossorigin="anonymous">
<div class="container d-flex mt-5" style="height:110px; background-color: #333;">
<h2 class="m-auto">H➲VER➾M⇡ND</h2>
</div>
By default h1 is a block element and will render on the line after the first img, and will cause the second img to appear on the line following the block.
To stop this from occurring you can set the h1 to have inline flow behaviour:
#header > h1 { display: inline; }
As for absolutely positioning the img inside the div, you need to set the containing div to have a "known size" before this will work properly. In my experience, you also need to change the position attribute away from the default - position: relative works for me:
#header { position: relative; width: 20em; height: 20em; }
#img-for-abs-positioning { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; }
If you can get that to work, you might want to try progressively removing the height, width, position attributes from div.header to get the minimal required attributes to get the effect you want.
UPDATE:
Here is a complete example that works on Firefox 3:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Example of vertical positioning inside a div</title>
<style type="text/css">
#header > h1 { display: inline; }
#header { border: solid 1px red;
position: relative; }
#img-for-abs-positioning { position: absolute;
bottom: -1em; right: 2em; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<img src="#" alt="Image 1" width="40" height="40" />
<h1>Header</h1>
<img src="#" alt="Image 2" width="40" height="40"
id="img-for-abs-positioning" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
My new favorite way to do it is with a CSS grid:
/* technique */
.wrapper {
display: inline-grid;
grid-auto-flow: column;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
/* visual emphasis */
.wrapper {
border: 1px solid red;
height: 180px;
width: 400px;
}
img {
width: 100px;
height: 80px;
background: #fafafa;
}
img:nth-child(2) {
height: 120px;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<img src="https://source.unsplash.com/random/100x80/?bear">
<img src="https://source.unsplash.com/random/100x120/?lion">
<img src="https://source.unsplash.com/random/100x80/?tiger">
</div>
Just use a one-cell table inside the div! Just set the cell and table height and with to 100% and you can use the vertical-align.
A one-cell table inside the div handles the vertical-align and is backward compatible back to the Stone Age!
For me, it worked this way:
<div style="width:70px; height:68px; float:right; display: table-cell; line-height: 68px">
Login
</div>
The "a" element converted to a button, using Bootstrap classes, and it is now vertically centered inside an outer "div".
I have been using the following solution (with no positioning and no line height) since over a year, it works with Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 as well.
<style>
.outer {
font-size: 0;
width: 400px;
height: 400px;
background: orange;
text-align: center;
display: inline-block;
}
.outer .emptyDiv {
height: 100%;
background: orange;
visibility: collapse;
}
.outer .inner {
padding: 10px;
background: red;
font: bold 12px Arial;
}
.verticalCenter {
display: inline-block;
*display: inline;
zoom: 1;
vertical-align: middle;
}
</style>
<div class="outer">
<div class="emptyDiv verticalCenter"></div>
<div class="inner verticalCenter">
<p>Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
</div>
</div>
This is my personal solution for an i element inside a div.
JSFiddle Example
HTML
<div class="circle">
<i class="fa fa-plus icon">
</i></div>
CSS
.circle {
border-radius: 50%;
color: blue;
background-color: red;
height:100px;
width:100px;
text-align: center;
line-height: 100px;
}
.icon {
font-size: 50px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Just this:
<div>
<table style="width: 100%; height: 100%">
<tr>
<td style="width: 100%; height: 100%; vertical-align: middle;">
What ever you want vertically-aligned
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
A one-cell table inside the div handles the vertical-align and is backward compatible back to the Stone Age!
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#style_center { position:relative; top:50%; left:50%; }
#style_center_absolute { position:absolute; top:50px; left:50px; }
<!--#style_center { position:relative; top:50%; left:50%; height:50px; margin-top:-25px; }-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div style="height:200px; width:200px; background:#00FF00">
<div id="style_center">+</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Here is just another (responsive) approach:
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0;
}
.table {
display: table;
width: auto;
table-layout:auto;
height: 100%;
}
.table:nth-child(even) {
background: #a9edc3;
}
.table:nth-child(odd) {
background: #eda9ce;
}
.tr {
display: table-row;
}
.td {
display: table-cell;
width: 50%;
vertical-align: middle;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/herrfischerhamburg/JcVxz/
<div id="header" style="display: table-cell; vertical-align:middle;">
...
or CSS
.someClass
{
display: table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
}
Browser Coverage
I'm making a slide oriented website, similar to a how a parallax site would operate, but so far no js, just css, and obviously no delayed scrolling because there is so far no js.
I am working on the first two slides. On the first slide I have my header and nav at the top, an empty section that was used for an affect with css that uses gradient and transparency and a picture that covers the viewport.
On the second slide, I have a section that represents all of slide2, which contains a different picture that covers the viewport, and some text that's identified by its own div and has a background color and text.
Here's the problem. I was able to get the background-color to stay fixed by using background-attachment and the background-position: top-left of the screen, height: 100%; and width: 15%; This keeps the background from scrolling, but this does nothing for the text.
I need to inhibit the text from scrolling as well, so that its position on the background doesn't change. So instead of the text scrolling onto the background, it's more like a curtain rising and revealing the text underneath.
I've tried position:fixed, but this ruins the transparency affect of the empty section on slide 1, and for some reason ignores any z-index I give it and remains on top of any subsequent slides (oddly, it obeys the z-index of the header, the empty section and the img that make up slide one).
Can I do this with css? I don't know js yet, but I'm learning it, and I know its used often for scrolling affects. So if the only fix is js, I'm not against using it, I just won't understand it atm.
Here is the simplified code:
HTML5
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="headerContainer">
<div id="containerRow">
<header id="home">
<img id="logo" src="images/logo/MASKAUTONOMY.png" alt="Logo" style="height:75px; margin:25px 0px 0px 25px; padding:0;">
</header>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>
HOME
</li>
<li>
ABOUT
</li>
<li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div><!--End containerRow-->
</div><!--End table headerContainer-->
<section class="ribbon">
</section><!--Section left blank to make ribbon with gradient affect-->
<Section class="slide1">
<h1>Company Slogan</h1>
</section>
<section id="about" class="slide2">
<div id="slide2Text">
<h1><span>Mask</span> Autonomy</h1>
<p class="companyInfo">Some stuff
</p>
<p> some more stuff.
</p>
</div><!--End of slide2Text-->
</section>
<section id="services" class="slide3">
<ul>
<li>List of things we do
</li>
<li>More things we do
</li>
</ul>
</section><!--End of slide3-->
</body>
</html>
css
body {
padding: 0px;
}
#headerContainer {
height: 10vh;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
display: table;
position: relative;
z-index: 999;
background-color: #e1e3e9;
}
header {
display: table-cell;
}
nav {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
display: table-cell;
width: 100%;
text-align: right;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
nav ul li {
margin-right: 0px;
padding-right: 25px;
display: inline-block;
*display: inline;
*zoom: 1;
font-size: 1.2vw;
font-family: arial;
}
nav ul li:last-of-type {
margin-right: 47px;
padding: 0px;
}
.ribbon {
position: relative;
height: 4vh;
width: 100%;
background-color: #e1e3e9;
z-index: 998;
}
.slide1 {
color: #e0e0e0;
height: 86vh;
background-image: url(../../Documents/DOCS/Stycorp/Website/Images/bckgrnd.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: center center;
overflow-x: hidden;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding: 0px;
position: relative;
z-index: 997;
}
.slide1 h1 {
position: relative;
top: 60%;
left: 47px;
font-size: 4vh;
}
.slide2 {
position: relative;
height: 100vh;
background: url(images/Charlotte.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
background-size: cover;
z-index: 989;
}
#slide2Text {
position: static;
background-color: #7d8e9e;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: left top;
height: 100%;
width: 15%;
text-align: center;
font-size: 2.33vh;
}
#slide2Text h1 {
position: relative;
top: 2.5%;
font-weight: normal;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
#slide2Text span {
color: #a9aba5;
font-weight: normal;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
.companyInfo {
color: #e0e0e0;
}
.slide3 {
position: relative;
z-index: 994;
height: 100vh;
}
Ok, maybe not that abbreviated. Sorry. Any ideas how to get the text on slide two to remain on the background-attachement:fixed portion of slide 2 during scrolling without messing up the transparency affect on slide one and allowing slide3 to scroll above slide2?
So I figured it out on my own. Funny, how simple the answer was. All I did was make a second container within the "slide2Text" container that contained the same inline text elements elements, I identified it as "text," and used css to style the background of "slide2Text", and css to fix the text position of "text."
I'm not sure if I like the result as much as I thought I would, but maybe I can use some javascript or css to make the text transition from invisible to visible as the slide scrolls into view.
If anyone wanted to see the code or doesn't understand my answer, just ask and I'll post it. Again, it was a simple fix.
There are 2 img div's on top of each-other, next to a fluid header logo (.svg) also in a div.
The HTML:
<header class="site-header" role="banner" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/WPHeader"><div class="wrap"><div id="menu_container"><img src="http://95.85.63.245/wp-content/uploads/dynamik-gen/theme/images/Hamburger_optimized.svg" alt="menu" class="menu-btn" /><div class="menu_spacer"></div><img src="http://95.85.63.245/wp-content/uploads/dynamik-gen/theme/images/searchicon.png" alt="zoek" class="search_icon" /></div>
<div class="title-area"><h1 class="site-title" itemprop="headline"></h1></div><div class="vr_menu_logo"><img src="http://95.85.63.245/wp-content/uploads/dynamik-gen/theme/images/logo_VR_font.svg"></div>
</div></header>
The CSS:
.vr_menu_logo{
max-width:95%;
float:left;
margin-right:20px;
}
#menu_container {
max-width: 5%;
float: right;
}
.menu-btn{
cursor: pointer;
max-height: 30px;
max-width: 30px;
margin-top:2em;
}
.menu_spacer{height:4em;}
.search_icon{
cursor: pointer;
max-height: 24px;
max-width: 24px;
}
.site-header .wrap {
width: 1260px;
}
.site-header .wrap {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
float: none;
overflow: hidden;
}
Goal:
Scaling the browser window would keep the small hamburger and the search icon's on level with respectively the top and bottom of the logo. Actually the 3 seperate items should act as one logo.
Check the cssdesk here: http://www.cssdesk.com/JDyYQ
I was hoping a spacer div with a max-height would do the trick, or display:table-cell;
But I can't get it to work, anyone have an idea? (javascript can be an option too, but this must be possible with CSS I would think...)
here is an example using flexbox - note in the fiddle that the two div are exactly the same apart from having a different height. This should help you getting what you are trying to achieve. Obviously check what kind of browser support you need to provide as flexbox is a relatively new technology.
http://jsfiddle.net/zn50mmnu/
html:
<div class="flexy f1">
<span class="menu">M</span>
<span class="search">S</span>
</div>
<div class="flexy f2">
<span class="menu">M</span>
<span class="search">S</span>
</div>
css:
.flexy {
float: right;
clear: both;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: space-between;
border: 2px solid red;
margin: 10px;
}
.f1 {
height: 50px;
}
.f2 {
height: 90px;
}
.menu {
background: red;
width: 1em;
}
.search {
background: blue;
width: 1em;
}
Hello I am trying to keep the links centered of the tan margin. How do I get it centered to the tan margin? I've tried a few things but margins won't move.
Here is the website if you want to visually see the issue:
http://codepen.io/willc86/pen/hpFLe
I am not sure why links don't want to move when I use margin-left or margin-top
css is
#header{
background-color: tan;
width: 90%;
Height: 80px;
margin: auto;
margin-bottom: 30px;
text-align: center;
}
#header a {
margin: 40px;
border: 3px solid green;
}
#box{
border: 3px solid red;
}
#space{
text-align: center;
}
#leftcolumn {
width: 300px; border: 1px solid red; float: left; margin-left: 30px;
}
#mcolumn {
width: 300px; border: 1px solid red; margin: auto;
}
#rightcolumn {
width: 300px; border: 1px solid red; float: right; margin-right: 30px;
}
.clear {
clear: both;
}
#box2{
border: 3px solid green;
margin: 40px;
text-align: center;
}
#bx{
border: 3px solid green;
margin: auto;
width: 200px;
}
#box2{
border: 3px solid green;
margin: 40px;
text-align: center;
}
#margin{
margin: 30px;
}
and my html is
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JSP Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
Facebook
Google
Yahoo
</div>
<div id="box">
<div id="space">
<div id="leftcolumn"><p>LEFT</p></div>
<div id="rightcolumn"><p>RIGHT</p></div>
<div id="margin">
<div id="mcolumn"><p>mcolomn</p></div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="box2">
<div id="margin">
<div id="bx">
<p> hello what is up
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Add this to #header
#header {
....
line-height: 80px;
vertical-align: middle;
}
Also check the demo.
Note that this might give trouble if you want to lines of menu.
General tip : always add line-height equal to div's height to align your link in vertical middle position
line-height:80px; in #header a would do the job for you! :)
If you want to align the links vertically:
#header a {
...
line-height: 80px;
}
#header a {
border: 3px solid #008000;
display: inline-block;
margin: 0 40px;
position: relative;
top: 50%;
}
Note: the top: 50% somehow uses height and margin of parent.
You can also do it like this: create a div inside (I've called it links) which you can format away from your other div. The margins don't show because the text is inline, and you can't give inline text a top and bottom margin. Changing it to display: inline-block and position: relative allows you to change the place of the div (if you don't want to set line height). Top: 36% will centre it because this counts the margin (so you want half of 80/110 px, or 4/11 = ~36% (you can make this 50% by adding the margin to the object beneath).
HTML:
<div id="links"> Facebook
Google
Yahoo
</div>
CSS:
#header a {
border: 3px solid green;
margin-left: 40px;
margin-right: 40px;
}
#links {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
top: 36%;
}
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/vbJkg