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Elizabeth Ives
912 PointsCentering Navigation inside Header
When asked to center the navigation element inside the header I wrote: nav { text-align: center; display: inline-block; } However, this had no effect on the appearance of my page when I checked it. When I applied the "text-align: center;" to the header element instead after watching your example, the whole header suddenly centered. Why didn't it center when written under the "nav" selector?
Thank you!
1 Answer
Abdullahi Abdinasir Ali
9,520 PointsThe text-align property only centers text . I suggest you use margin: auto which center block of element like head,div and nav. Hope that helps
Elizabeth Ives
912 PointsElizabeth Ives
912 PointsThank you for your answer. I did try using "nav { margin: center; } " to center the navigation list, but that also had no effect. And the nav element is nested within the header element. It only worked when I wrote " header { text-align: center; } nav { display: inline-block;} " and this centered the navigation list under the main header and logo of the page.
I was just curious why only this way has worked and the other ways that I thought would work didn't.