Sent by Paul Novitski on 18 February 2010 19:07
At 2/18/2010 10:23 AM, Neil Hunt wrote:
>Trying to center bottom navigation menu in footer of webpage. Menu ignores
>centering and wants to left justify rather than center in a width defined
>area. Any tricks to force the centering? It was suggested that I manually
>center it by increasing the padding but I thought there had to be a better
>way around this. Any ideas?
There is a useful wiki that accompanies this listserve. Check this out:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CenteringBlockElement
Briefly, if you know the width of your menu you can declare that in
your stylesheet and then use a number of techniques for centering,
including setting margins left & right to 'auto' or using the left:
50%; margin-left: -NNNpx where NNN is half your meun width.
If you can't predict the width, you can try declaring the menu items
inline and use text-align: center.
If you can't use inline, say because it doesn't give you enough
control over margins & padding, you can try table-cell and sacrifice
cross-browser support. (It's easy to serve separate stylesheets to
various versions of IE using conditional comments.)
Regards,
Paul
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