Sketch: vertical text alignment

Question

When working with Adobe InDesign it is possible to select how text will be aligned vertically:

I am especially interested in having the text vertically centred and was wondering if this is also possible in Sketch. I figured, that maybe these controls here are responsible for this, however they are greyed out:

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Sketch only allows to vertically center text if they are fixed and do not using the native line-height of the font. This is how you can active the vertical alignment options:

1. Create a text layer
2. Change alignment to fixed
3. Grap the handler at the bottom
4. Resize the text box, vertical alignment options will be active

For Example: When styling a button you can now stretch the fixed text area above the background layer, setting contrains to all directions an voi la, you have a full horizontal and vertical flexible button.