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CSS

Shaked Gvirtsman
Shaked Gvirtsman
2,270 Points
Posted by Shaked Gvirtsman
Shaked Gvirtsman
2,270 Points

Help centering nav

I'm trying to center my navigation menu and just can't.... I tried many thing I found on the web but nothing is working. This is my html file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
        <head>
            <title>shaked</title>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
    </head>
    <body>
    <nav>
      <ul id="navigation-bar">
        <li>About Me</li>
        <li>Lectures</li>
        <li>gallery</li>
        <li>contact me</li>
      </ul>
      </nav>
        <header>
        <h1>Welcome to my website</h1>
        </header>
    </body>
</html>         

    here is my CSS code:

#navigation-bar li {
  color: green;
  display: inline;
 padding: 0px 15px 5px;
  margin-right: 10px;
 background-color: lightblue;
}
nav {
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

You were quite close! Keep working on those box-models to get a better understanding of what's going on. This type of problem is a prime candidate to flexbox!

To do this in flexbox, all you'd need is this

#navigation-bar {
   display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
}

But, that's not what you were asking, so by turning the list items into inline-block, and setting the nav to text-align: center, we are able to accomplish this.

Here's your example, that I've modified: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/pxjQEO