How to vertically align text with icon font?

Question

I have a very basic HTML which mix plain text and icon fonts. The problem is that icons are not exactly rendered at the same height than the text:

Any suggestion to fix it?

Answer 1

In this scenario, since you are working with inline-level elements, you could add vertical-align: middle to the span elements for vertical centering:

.nav-text {
  vertical-align: middle;
}

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Alternatively, you could set the display of the parent element to flex and set align-items to center for vertical centering:

.menu {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}