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Two adjacent spans: One is vertically center aligned, the other is not. Why?

In the following SSCCE, I applied a CSS property vertical-align:middle; to the .innerContainer div. It has two spans: one containing the ALPHA BRAVO CHARLIE text, and the other containing the SUBSCRIBE NOW text.

The #firstSpan seems to be vertically aligned in the middle. The #secondSpan doesn't. Why?

JsFiddle here.

I want the #secondSpan span to also be aligned in the middle vertically. How do I do that?

HTML: 

<div class="container">
  <div class="innerContainer">
    <span class="firstSpan">Alpha Bravo Charlie</span>
    <span class="secondSpan">Subscribe now</span>
  </div>
</div>

CSS:

.container {
    margin-bottom:0px;  
    padding: 0 10px 0 10px;
}
.innerContainer {
    background-color: rgb(74, 72, 72); 
    padding: 30px 10px 30px 10px;
    text-align: center;
    /* vertical-align: middle; */
}
.firstSpan {
    font-family: Oxygen, sans-serif ;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 32px;
    color: white;
    letter-spacing: 2px;
}
.secondSpan {
    margin: 0 40px 0 40px; 
    padding: 15px;
    background-color:green; 
    text-transform:uppercase; 
    font-weight: bolder; 
    font-size: 12px;
    letter-spacing: 1px;
}

Screenshot:

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Solution

  • The property vertical-align apply to the element itself not to the content, try 

    .innerContainer > span {
    vertical-align:middle;
}

    UpdatedDemo

    In case your browser window isn't wide enough to show the aligned text, here's the same demo with some of the text taken out.