100% height in a td, positioning the text in the vertical middle - html

Question

I am currently using EvoPDF (HTML to PDF) to build up a report in C#.
In this report we have a table, looking something like this in the fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/bk48srw1/3/
with the important part:
<tr>
<td>label for something</td>
<td style="position:relative;" rowspan="99999">
<div id="absolute">
<div class="centerd">
<span>value for all</span>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
The idea is that there are a variety of products, but they will have the same value in the second column, hence:
rowspan="99999"
The client wants the styling (border and background) to span the height of the second column, with the text in the middle. I have tried the position absolute, display:table, as well as vertical-align.
I cannot use a solution like Vertically align text in a span with fixed width and height
because I have no idea what the height would be (there could be an arbitrary number of tr's)
How do I make the div 100% height of the td, with the text displaying in the middle?
My preference is not to use JS, seeing that this code doesn't see a browser at all.
For styling purposes, I need to have about 3px padding inbetween the td and the div, seeing that I cannot add cellspacing to only 1 td.

Answer 1

Used to this change your html as like this
td{
width:50%;vertical-align:middle;
}
<table style="width:100% ">
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr><td>label for something</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>label for this:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>label for this:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>label for this:</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>label for this:</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td style="background:yellow; border: 1px solid black;text-align:center;">
<table width="100%">
<tr><td>value for all</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Answer 2

Here you go: http://jsfiddle.net/sjncndvn/2/
HTML markup:
<table style="width:100% ">
<tr>
<td>label for something</td>
<td style="position:relative;" rowspan="99999">
<div id="absolute">
<div class="centerd">
<span>value for all</span>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>label for this:</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>label for this:</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>label for this:</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>label for this:</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS:
td{
width:50%;
display:table-cell ;
vertical-align:middle ;
}
#absolute {
width:100%;
background:yellow;
display:table;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.centerd {
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
text-align:center;
background-color:#pink;
}
Since #absolute no longer uses absolute positioning, you may want to change the ID name to something else.