Vertical alignment of text and icon in button

Question

I'm having trouble vertically aligning a font-awesome icon with text within a button under the Bootstrap framework. I've tried so many things including setting the line-height, but nothing is working.

<button id="edit-listing-form-house_Continue" 
        class="btn btn-large btn-primary"
        style=""
        value=""
        name="Continue"
        type="submit">
    Continue
    <i class="icon-ok" style="font-size:40px;"></i>
</button>

http://jsfiddle.net/fPXFY/

How can I get this to work?

Answer 1

Alternativly if your using bootstrap then you can just add align-middle to vertical align the element.

<button id="whaever" class="btn btn-large btn-primary" style="padding: 20px;" name="Continue" type="submit">Continue
    <i class="icon-ok align-middle" style="font-size:40px;"></i>
</button>

Answer 2

There is one rule that is set by font-awesome.css, which you need to override.

You should set overrides in your CSS files rather than inline, but essentially, the icon-ok class is being set to vertical-align: baseline; by default and which I've corrected here:

<button id="whatever" class="btn btn-large btn-primary" name="Continue" type="submit">
    <span>Continue</span>
    <i class="icon-ok" style="font-size:30px; vertical-align: middle;"></i>
</button>

Example here: http://jsfiddle.net/fPXFY/4/ and the output of which is:

I've downsized the font-size of the icon above in this instance to 30px, as it feels too big at 40px for the size of the button, but this is purely a personal viewpoint. You could increase the padding on the button to compensate if required:

<button id="whaever" class="btn btn-large btn-primary" style="padding: 20px;" name="Continue" type="submit">
    <span>Continue</span>
    <i class="icon-ok" style="font-size:30px; vertical-align: middle;"></i>
</button>

Producing: http://jsfiddle.net/fPXFY/5/ the output of which is: