am having trouble centering my navigation bar.

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I am having trouble centering my navigation bar.

This is the example nav bar I am working with

<style>
/* Begin Navigation Bar Styling */
#nav {
  width: 100%;
  float: left;
  margin: 0 0 3em 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;
  background-color: #f2f2f2;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
  border-top: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li {
  float: left; }
#nav li a {
  display: block;
  padding: 8px 15px;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: #069;
  border-right: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li a:hover {
  color: #c00;
  background-color: #fff; }
/* End navigation bar styling. */
</style>
but as seen, the navigation bar is not centered.

I have tried using auto margins but it doesn't work. How do I go about fixing this?

Posted 30-Jul-14 15:10pm

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TrushnaK 31-Jul-14 2:02am

we can't imaging your UI with just css.

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Kumarbs · Answer 1 · 2014-07-30T19:07:00

Solution 1

I didn't see any alignment you made for center. Even after you put the alignment if it is not come, then try to put that in the div tag and align that div center.

Posted 30-Jul-14 19:07pm

Kumarbs

Murali Gowda · Answer 2 · 2014-07-30T23:01:00

Hi,

Slight change to your code,

CSS

#nav {
        width: 100%;
        float: left;
        margin: 0 0 3em 0;
        padding: 0;
        text-align:center;
        list-style: none;
        background-color: #f2f2f2;
        border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
        border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
    }

        #nav li {
            /*float: left;*/
            display:inline;
        }

            #nav li a {
                display: block;
                padding: 8px 15px;
                text-decoration: none;
                font-weight: bold;
                color: #069;
                border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
            }

                #nav li a:hover {
                    color: #c00;
                    background-color: #fff;
                }

Hope this is what you expected..