Vertically center text in text input in Internet E

Question

I am having trouble vertical aligning text in an input field in Internet Explorer.

I have:

input#search {
    float:left;
    font-size:11px;
    height:20px;
    margin:0;
    padding-left:4px;
    width:100px;
}

In Firefox and Chrome, it seems to be automatically vertical aligned, however in Internet Explorer it is not.

Answer 1

Just define line-height and height for a text box with same value. It will be taken care

Answer 2

Check the parent div. If it's empty you need to add content (&nbps;) so explorer will calc the height correctly.

Answer 3

Setting line-height:1 might mitigate the vertical alignment and a bit of padding:.15em should add some breathing space to the fields too.

Answer 4

Just set the height and line-height for the input object and it works fine (ie 7+).

input { border: 0; font-size: 0.8em; height: 32px; line-height: 32px;}

gl Paulo Bueno

Answer 5

You can use IE conditional comment like this:

<!--[if IE]>
input#search{
  padding-top:3px;    /* adjust value */
}
<![endif]-->