text on a Image Button - Very easy I imagine, but how?

This is for my wordpress blog, what I'm trying to do is line up text to place it on an image button, the text should be centered on the image horizontally and vertically.. issue is, I can't get it to line up vertically.

It's doing this..

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I want it to do this..

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Here's my code..

What am I missing?

 

play with adding maybe, 3px padding? playing with the padding might give you the desired result.

 

*slaps head*

Thanks lol

 

any time