<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>CSS Test: Vertical-align set to 'middle' with a spanning cell</title> <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" /> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#height-layout" /> <meta name="flags" content="" /> <meta name="assert" content="A spanning cell with 'vertical-align' set to 'middle' aligns content to the vertical center of the rows it spans." /> <style type="text/css"> table { height: 200px; } #cell { border: 1px solid black; vertical-align: middle; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if the "Filler Text" below is vertically aligned to the middle of the box.</p> <table> <tr> <td></td> <td id="cell" rowspan="2">Filler Text</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>