Centering a nav element in a div.

[Tomia]

Hi, i’m a novice at this :) .i’m having difficulty trying to center a nav inside a div i’ve named ‘menu’. I’ve tried to find the problem in the details and nothing is helping. Seeing that the problem might also reside elsewhere within the page i’m creating, i will post all of the html (hope i’m not pushing it), plus the CSS. i appreciate the help. Thank you.

html:

#119211

wolfcry911

Participant

Can you post the code on Codepen?

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David_Leitch

Participant

Just having a look at that, I think your problem might be related to using float: left on nav ul. nav ul is the container of all of the nav links, so floating that to left with take the whole menu to the left.

I would try display: block; margin: 0 auto; on the nav ul element. From what I can see, that would centre the nav.

#119377

Historical Forums User

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This wouldn’t be what you’re trying to achieve by chance?

http://codepen.io/AaronCDR/pen/KbJyG

If you haven’t defined a width on the menu, setting it to `display: table;` with `margin: 0 auto;` should centre it within the parent element.

Edit – just noticed you have defined a width, in which case @David_Leitch is correct with `display: block;`.

#119626

Tomia

Member

Thank you all for the precious feedback. David, the display:block property causes the submenu to appear over the menu, ie. it overlaps the nav, but removing the float did center the nav as i intended it to. Thank you.

[wolfcry911]

Can you post the code on Codepen?

[David_Leitch]

Just having a look at that, I think your problem might be related to using float: left on nav ul. nav ul is the container of all of the nav links, so floating that to left with take the whole menu to the left.

I would try display: block; margin: 0 auto; on the nav ul element. From what I can see, that would centre the nav.

[Historical Forums User]

This wouldn’t be what you’re trying to achieve by chance?

http://codepen.io/AaronCDR/pen/KbJyG

If you haven’t defined a width on the menu, setting it to `display: table;` with `margin: 0 auto;` should centre it within the parent element.

Edit – just noticed you have defined a width, in which case @David_Leitch is correct with `display: block;`.

[Tomia]

Thank you all for the precious feedback. David, the display:block property causes the submenu to appear over the menu, ie. it overlaps the nav, but removing the float did center the nav as i intended it to. Thank you.

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