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HTML

<div id="slide-container"> 
    <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">    
        <div class="CV">  
        <div class="CV-text">This my entire a test</div>
        </div>
    </a>

</div>

CSS

.CV {
    width: 100px;
    height: 150px;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
    background-color: #89BC23;
    text-align: center;
    vertical-align: middle;
    position:relative;
}
.CV-text {
    position:absolute;
    top:50%; 
    margin-top: -20px; /*ideally this should be height/2 of current element*/
}
#slide-container {
    width: 100%;
    height: 350px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    z-index: 1;
    padding: 12px;
    margin-bottom: 25px;
    border: 1px solid #ebebeb;
}