vertically aligned to the middle of the cell
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title></title> <style type="text/css" media="Screen"> * .align-middle { height: 200px; vertical-align: middle; } </style> </head> <body> <table> <tr> <td class="align-middle">vertically aligned to the middle of the cell.</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>