vertical align link inside div

Question

I've created some floating buttons and a link that fills the whole button. However, vertical alignment doesn't seem to apply - the link text always stays at the top of the button <li>.

Here's a fiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/su7nf/

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<div id="ButtonContainer">
    <ul>
        <li>
            <div class="TemplateButton"><a href="http://www.google.com">Report an Issue</a></div>
        </li>
        <li>
            <div class="TemplateButton"><a href="http://www.google.com">Contact Us</a></div>
        </li>
        <li>
            <div class="TemplateButton"><a href="http://www.google.com">Enter Project</a></div>
        </li>
        <li>
            <div class="TemplateButton"><a href="http://www.google.com">Request Consultation</a></div>
        </li>
        <li>
            <div class="TemplateButton"><a href="http://www.google.com">How to Protect Yourself From Some Really Long Text</a></div>
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

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    ul {
        list-style-type: none;
    }
    /* BUTTONS INSIDE TAB STYLING */

    #ButtonContainer {
        margin: auto;
        width: 100%;
        overflow: auto;
        padding-top: 10px;
        padding-bottom: 10px;
    }

    #ButtonContainer > ul {
            padding: 0;
            margin: 0;
    }

    #ButtonContainer > ul > li {
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: bottom;
    }

    .TemplateButton {
        overflow: auto;
        vertical-align: bottom;
    }

    .TemplateButton > a {
        width: 119px;
        height: 119px;
        padding: 15px;
        float: left;
        background-color: pink;
        margin-left: 3px;
        margin-right: 3px;
        vertical-align: bottom;
        text-align: center;
        font-size: 1.25em;
        border: 1px solid white;
        border-radius: 15px;
        -moz-border-radius: 15px;
    }

Answer 1

In your a tags use table-cell instead of float and change vertical-align to middle:

.TemplateButton > a {
  /*float: left; Remove this*/
  display:table-cell;    /*Add this*/
  vertical-align:middle; /*Change to middle*/
}

Check this Demo Fiddle

Answer 2

Set the anchor's line-height to that of the DIV, or set it to display: block otherwise your width/height values won't work