Vertically center text in a textbox

Like Indesign, a way to vertically justify or center a text in a textbox.

I don't know if there is a way to automatically center the text, but you can play with padding, if font size and height are fixed:
.text-box *.viewport {
    -fx-padding: 15 5 3 5;
// Tested with:
TextBox
    text: "Hello World"
    columns: 12
    selectOnFocus: true
    layoutInfo: LayoutInfo { height: 50 }
}

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Anyone know how to center text vertically on FrameMaker pages? (There is a way to do this, right?)
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With a tool like Framescript, you could set up a procedure that would determine the bottom gap from the last line of text to the end of the text frame and then split difference to push down the top of line text, but this requires a bit of coding.

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The only time the More button is enabled is when I have the Text Box selected, and then the options pertain to the line weight, etc. of the box and not the text. When I select the text the More button is not enabled and the only options properties are the ones shown above.
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How do you center objects and or a website vertically and horizontally in Muse?
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It does not. It's specific to table cells, or things with the
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Could you do this with css? There is a css attribute display:table that allows you to set the paragraph attribute to align to themiddle of a region. See: http://css-tricks.com/vertically-center-multi-lined-text/
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import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
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