Vertically centering Font Awesome icon inside nav - html

Question

I'm trying to make the icon vertically centered so it would align with the rest of the nav links but I can't seem to get it to work no matter what I try.
HTML
<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse">
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1" aria-expanded="false">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<img src="img/logo.png" class="navbar-brand" href="index.html">
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="nav">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-left">
<li><span class="fa fa-phone"> [phone]</span></li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Work</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
CSS
nav.navbar {
padding: 12px;
}
span.fa.fa-phone {
color: #fff;
vertical-align: middle;
}

Answer 1

Navbar's links have padding: 15px property. So you need to apply this property to the phone number.
Make special class for this purpose. Use
<li class="phone"><span class="fa fa-phone"></span> [phone]</li>
instead of <li><span class="fa fa-phone"> [phone]</span></li>.
Use <a class="navbar-brand" href="index.html"><img src="img/logo.png" alt=""></a>
instead of <img src="img/logo.png" class="navbar-brand" href="index.html">
The toggle-button has to use the id from <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="nav"> as the value of the data-target property.
Please chaeck the result. Is it what you want to achieve?
#import url('https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css');
#import url('https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.6.1/css/font-awesome.min.css');
.navbar {
padding: 12px;
}
.nav .phone {
color: #fff;
padding: 15px;
}
<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse">
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#nav" aria-expanded="false">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" href="index.html"><img src="img/logo.png" alt=""></a>
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="nav">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-left">
<li class="phone"><span class="fa fa-phone"></span> [phone]</li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Work</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>