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center float:left

Sent by Geoffrey Hoffman on 2 April 2009 00:12


> From: [EMAIL-REMOVED] on behalf of AG
> Sent: Wed 4/1/2009 4:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL-REMOVED]
> Subject: [css-d] center float:left
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> Here's the problem:
> - building a horizontal tabbed navigation bar with these conditions:
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> 1. equal width of tabs
> 2. centered to the width of the body
> 3. preserve centering when adding/subtracting tabs [dynamically generated links/tabs]
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> All menus based upon the <ul> type of lists use a float:left or right approach. You can center a
list if it's enclosed in a div with a fixed width. However, as mentioned above, this is not a
solution to my problem since the tabs are dynamically generated.
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> The tabs can be centered eliminating the float, but, you loose the equal width condition.
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> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Needs to work in IE6 and all normal browsers.


Did you try something like:

UL or enclosing DIV ~ display:inline; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; text-align:center;
LI's ~ display:inline; white-space:no-wrap;
A's ~ display:block; width:###px; 

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