[css] How to vertically align <li> elements in <ul>?

I have a horizontal <ul> and I need to center each <li> in it vertically. My markup is below. Each <li> has a border, and I need the items as well as their contents to be in the middle vertically. Please help; I am new to CSS.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title></title>
    <style type="text/css">
        .toolbar li
        {
            border: solid 1px black;
            display: block;
            float: left;
            height: 100px;
            list-style-type: none;
            margin: 10px;
            vertical-align: middle;
        }
        .toolbar li.button
        {
            height: 50px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="toolbar">
        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">first item<br />
                first item<br />
                first item</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">second item</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">last item</a></li>
            <li class="button"><a href="#">button<br />
                button</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

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The answer is


Here's a good one:

Set line-height equal to whatever the height is; works like a charm!

E.g:

li {
    height: 30px;
    line-height: 30px;
}

I had the same problem. Try this.

<nav>
    <ul>
        <li><a href="#">AnaSayfa</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Hakkimizda</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Iletisim</a></li>
    </ul>
</nav>
@charset "utf-8";

nav {
    background-color: #9900CC;
    height: 80px;
    width: 400px;
}

ul {
    list-style: none;
    float: right;
    margin: 0;
}

li {
    float: left;
    width: 100px;
    line-height: 80px;
    vertical-align: middle;
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0;
}

nav li a {
    width: 100px;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #FFFFFF;
}

You can use flexbox for this.

ul {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
}

A detailed explanation of how to use flexbox can be found here.