I have two id's that I am using for a <ul> tag in my website. The id .a works and doesn't have any bullet points. The id .b does not work when I use
list-style-type: square; tag. Basically, I want id .b to have bullet points and I don't want id .a to have bullet points. Both of them don't show any bullet points. My question is what am I doing wrong with my id .b because I want it to have bullet points and it doesn't.
I will post the section of the code below.
#navbar { margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;}
.a { list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow:0;
}
.b { list-style-type: square;
text-align: center;
}
Here are my full <li> and <ul> html tags
<div id="navbar">
<ul class="a">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Auctions<li>
<li>Contact<li>
<li>Pictures<li>
</ul>
</div>
Here is my full CSS code
#navbar { margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;}
.a { list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow:0;
}
.b { list-style-type: square;
text-align: center;
}
a:link, a:visited { display: block;
font-weight: bold;
color: white;
background-color: black;
padding: 6px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
width: 120px;
}
a:hover, a:active { background-color: red;}
li { display:inline-block; margin-right:15px;}
html { background-color: #262626;}
body { margin: auto;
margin-left: 199px;
margin-right: 185px;
text-align: center;
background-color: white;}
Your class="b" list items are getting the square, but its getting swallowed up by this line of css: li { display:inline-block; margin-right:15px; }
You may need to be more specific with your css selectors to get it working, something like ul.a li { display:inline-block; margin-right:15px; } might achieve what you're trying to do, depending on your markup.
You haven't shared what your markup is for the class="b" items, but you can see its working in this JS fiddle with that change to the css: https://jsfiddle.net/52e5Lsm5/5/
This css should work:
#navbar { margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;}
.a { list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow:0;
}
.b { list-style-type: bullets;
text-align: center;
}
a:link, a:visited { display: block;
font-weight: bold;
color: white;
background-color: black;
padding: 6px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
width: 120px;
}
a:hover, a:active { background-color: red;}
li { margin-right:15px;}
html { background-color: #262626;}
body { margin: auto;
margin-left: 199px;
margin-right: 185px;
text-align: center;
background-color: white;}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="navbar">
<ul class="a">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About<li>
<li>Auctions<li>
<li>Contact<li>
<li>Pictures</li>
</ul>
<ul class="b">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Auctions</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Pictures</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Related
I am trying to center my ul, but I can't seem to get it to center. I have tried using display: table margin: 0 auto That puts the ul in the middle, but not exactly in the center. I have also tried using display: block with margin: 0 auto but that doesn't center it either
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Helvetica;
}
header {
background-color: black;
color: white;
padding: 25px;
text-align: center;
}
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
li {
float: left;
}
li a {
display: block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
li a:hover {
background-color: red;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Droplet Games - Official Site</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles-index.css">
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>DROPLET GAMES</h1>
<ul>
<li><a class="active" href="#home">Home</a></li>
<li>Games</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>About</li>
</ul>
</header>
</html>
You can add this rule to the <ul>:
display: inline-block;
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Helvetica;
}
header {
background-color: black;
color: white;
padding: 25px;
text-align: center;
}
ul {
display: inline-block;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
li {
float: left;
}
li a {
display: block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
li a:hover {
background-color: red;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Droplet Games - Official Site</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles-index.css">
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>DROPLET GAMES</h1>
<ul>
<li><a class="active" href="#home">Home</a></li>
<li>Games</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>About</li>
</ul>
</header>
</html>
I assume that the issue isn't so much that you want the ul element centered, but rather you want the menu items (the li items) inside the ul to be centered.
The entire issue is solved by simply changing the style on your li from float:left to display:inline-block. See below.
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Helvetica;
}
header {
background-color: black;
color: white;
padding: 25px;
text-align: center;
}
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
li {
display:inline-block;
}
li a {
display: block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
li a:hover {
background-color: red;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Droplet Games - Official Site</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles-index.css">
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>DROPLET GAMES</h1>
<ul>
<li><a class="active" href="#home">Home</a></li>
<li>Games</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>About</li>
</ul>
</header>
</html>
Updated answer: use flexbox
For the best control over spacing of elements in a column or a row, I'd recommend using flexbox now that it has widespread browser support.
To use flexbox here, set display: flex; on the ul, making it the flex container. By default, this will make the ul act as a row with the li acting as flex items within that row. CSS Tricks has a great guide about using flexbox.
I've left my original answer which uses display: inline-block; below.
Original answer
Sounds like display: inline-block; is exactly what you need.
As the name alludes, an element with display: inline-block; acts as if it's an inline element as far as its parent is concerned, and internally it acts like a block element.
Its use here requires a container with width: 100%; and text-align: center;. I've used the <nav> element below. The <ul> can then be given display: inline-block; to achieve the effect you want.
You can also use display: inline-block; in combination with display: inline; for the <li> and their child <a> elements as follows, in order to avoid the float: left; use.
li {
display: inline;
}
li a {
display: inline-block;
...
}
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Helvetica;
}
header {
background-color: black;
color: white;
padding: 25px;
text-align: center;
}
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
display: inline-block;
}
li {
display: inline;
}
li a {
display: inline-block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
}
li a:hover {
background-color: red;
}
nav {
width: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
}
<header>
<h1>DROPLET GAMES</h1>
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a class="active" href="#home">Home</a>
</li>
<li>Games
</li>
<li>Contact
</li>
<li>About
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
I'm a little new to HTML as my classes has recently started and etc. In our task we have to hand in a website that has different characteristics, one of them being a drop down menu.
I managed to almost get it all working, but when I tried to hover my mouse over one of the navigation menu tags, the drop down menu is a little bit to the left like it would be as a listing object?
Here is how it shows up
This is how it looks when I hover over About
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong! I tried to do some research where I ended up centering my navigation menu, but that was all I managed to do! What do I have to do to make it be aligned with the "About" tag?
p {
font-size: 44px;
color: white;
font-family: verdana;
background-color: #333;
text-align: center;
}
p2 {
font-size: 12px;
color: white;
font-family: verdana;
}
body {
background-image: url(background.jpg);
}
div {
margin-left: 400px;
margin-right: 400px;
margin-top: 30px;
border: solid white 3px;
background-color: #333;
}
div2 {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 6em;
}
#nav {
text-align:center;
}
#nav ul {
display:inline-block;
}
#nav a {
float:left;
text-decoration:none;
padding:0 30px;
}
ul {
background-color: #333;
font-family: verdana;
}
ul li {
display: inline;
background-color: #333;
font-size: 24px;
height: 47px;
width: 200px;
line-height: 47px;
text-align: center;
float: left;
list-style: none;
}
ul li a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
}
ul li a:hover {
background-color: white;
}
ul li a:active{
background-color: #333;
color: #333
}
ul li ul li {
display: none;
}
ul li:hover ul li{
display: block;
}
.active {
background-color: white;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css">
<title>Sleepless hub</title>
</head>
<body>
<div> <!-- Denne er med for å kun skape en fin designer strek ;) -->
</div>
<div>
<p>There is nothing like a good nut </p>
</div>
<div> <!-- Samme her. -->
</div>
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li> Home</li>
<li> About
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Wikipedia</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Projects</li>
<li> Contact me</li>
<li> Fun Room</li>
</div>
<div>
<p>Okay</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Issue is because of padding you have for the child ul and anchor tag. If you remove those it will align properly. Try to add the classes to the child elements, as this is not the proper way to write the css.
p {
font-size: 44px;
color: white;
font-family: verdana;
background-color: #333;
text-align: center;
}
p2 {
font-size: 12px;
color: white;
font-family: verdana;
}
body {
background-image: url(background.jpg);
}
div {
margin-left: 400px;
margin-right: 400px;
margin-top: 30px;
border: solid white 3px;
background-color: #333;
}
div2 {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 6em;
}
#nav {
text-align:center;
}
#nav ul {
display:inline-block;
}
#nav a {
float:left;
text-decoration:none;
padding:0 30px;
}
ul {
background-color: #333;
font-family: verdana;
}
ul li {
display: inline;
background-color: #333;
font-size: 24px;
height: 47px;
width: 200px;
line-height: 47px;
text-align: center;
float: left;
list-style: none;
}
ul li a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
}
ul li a:hover {
border: 1px solid red;
}
ul li a:active{
background-color: #333;
color: #333
}
ul li ul li {
display: none;
}
ul li ul{
padding-left: 0;
}
ul li:hover ul li{
display: block;
}
.active {
background-color: white;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css">
<title>Sleepless hub</title>
</head>
<body>
<div> <!-- Denne er med for å kun skape en fin designer strek ;) -->
</div>
<div>
<p>There is nothing like a good nut </p>
</div>
<div> <!-- Samme her. -->
</div>
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li> Home</li>
<li> About
<ul>
<li> <a href="#">Wikipedia</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Projects</li>
<li> Contact me</li>
<li> Fun Room</li>
</div>
<div>
<p>Okay</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
function ServicesMenu() {
document.getElementsByClassName("services-cont")[0].classList.toggle("showS");
}
#charset "UTF-8";
*{padding:0;margin:0;}
body{min-width:300px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background:#f8f8f8 }
.wrapper {
max-width: 980px;
height:2000px;
margin: 0px auto;
position: relative;
background-color: #fff;
}
header{
width:980px;
height:105px;
background: #e60000;
}
ul.navbar {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
top:63px;
right:60px;
width: 560px;
display: block;
position: absolute;
}
ul.navbar li {
display:inline-block;
Margin-left:15px;
background: black;
}
ul.navbar li a {
display: inline-block;
color: #f2f2f2;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px 15px;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 17px;
}
ul.navbar li a:hover {background-color: #660000;}
.services-cont{display: none;}
.services-cont.showS {
list-style-type: none;
display: block;
background-color: #707070 ;
}
.services-cont.showS li {
float: none;
display: inline;
height:0;
border:none;
}
.services-cont.showS li a {
display: block;
text-align: left;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="menustyle.css">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, initial-scale=1" />
<script src="MenuFunc.js"></script>
<Title>Menu</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<header>
</header>
<ul class="navbar">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Services
<ul class="services-cont">
<li>Service 1</li>
<li>Service 2</li>
<li>Service 3</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
However, the parent <li> appears on top with the nested list below and the rest <li> of the parent list are below aligned with the end of the child list.
How do I get the parent list items Home, Services and Contact horizontally aligned in a straight line?
Explanation
The position: absolute and overflow: hidden properties were interfering and not allowing the dropdown list to display properly. I have commented them in the code so you can see.
You should refrain from using absolute positioning where you can achieve the same effect by simply nesting the tags properly. For instance, I nested your navbar inside the red header.
Code
Press the 'Run code snippet' button below to see the code output.
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
body {
min-width: 300px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: #f8f8f8
}
.wrapper {
max-width: 980px;
height: 2000px;
margin: 0px auto;
/*position: relative;*/
background-color: #fff;
}
header {
padding: 20px;
width: 980px;
height: 30px;
background: #e60000;
}
.navbar {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
/*overflow: hidden;*/
top: 63px;
right: 60px;
width: 560px;
display: block;
/*position: absolute;*/
}
.navbar li {
display: inline-block;
Margin-left: 15px;
background: black;
}
.navbar li a {
display: inline-block;
color: #f2f2f2;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px 15px;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 17px;
}
.navbar li a:hover {
background-color: #660000;
}
.navbar li ul {
position: absolute;
top: auto;
list-style-type: none;
display: none;
background-color: #707070;
}
.navbar li ul li {
float: none;
display: inline;
height: 0;
border: none;
}
.navbar li ul li a {
display: block;
text-align: left;
}
.navbar li:hover>ul {
display: block;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<Title>Menu</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<header>
<ul class="navbar">
<li>Home
</li>
<li>Services
<ul>
<li>Service 1
</li>
<li>Service 2
</li>
<li>Service 3
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Contact
</li>
</ul>
</header>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Explanation
You need to add the following two line of CSS code for the nested <li> tag.
ul li ul {
position: absolute;
top: auto;
}
Setting the position to absolute and top to auto will display your nested ul under the parent tag.
Code
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ul li {
background: black;
color: white;
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
}
ul li ul {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: grey;
/*YOU NEED THE TWO LINES BELOW*/
position: absolute;
top: auto;
}
ul li ul li {
color: white;
background: grey;
display: block;
width: 80px;
padding: 10px;
}
<html>
<body>
<ul>
<li>
Home
</li>
<li>
Services
<ul>
<li>1</li>
<li>2</li>
<li>3</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Contact
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
I'm currently learning HTML and CSS and I tried making my very first webpage but got stuck when I realized my h2 is not appearing anywhere on the page. Sorry Im a noob and have no idea what I did wrong. Please help! Thank you!
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}
header{
position: fixed;
background-color: black;
width: 100%;
}
ul{
float: right;
padding-right: 15px;
text-align: center;
}
ul li{
list-style: none;
display: inline-block;
padding: 15px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
}
ul li a{
text-decoration: none;
color:white
}
a:hover{
font-size: 20px;
color: green;
}
header h1{
color: red;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 20px;
}
body{
background-color: red;
}
nav{
margin-right: 38%;
}
h2{
color: blue;
background-color: white;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>TryOne</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>My Portfolio</h1>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Work</li>
<li>Testimonials</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
<div>
<h2>Hello!</h2>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Your header is fixed ... You need to move your div down with margin ..FIDDLE
<header>
<h1>My Portfolio</h1>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Work</li>
<li>Testimonials</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
<div id="DIV">
<h2>Hello!</h2>
</div>
--
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}
header{
position: fixed;
background-color: black;
width: 100%;
}
ul{
float: right;
padding-right: 15px;
text-align: center;
}
ul li{
list-style: none;
display: inline-block;
padding: 15px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
}
ul li a{
text-decoration: none;
color:white
}
a:hover{
font-size: 20px;
color: green;
}
header h1{
color: red;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 20px;
}
body{
background-color: red;
}
nav{
margin-right: 38%;
}
h2{
color: blue;
background-color: white;
}
#DIV{
position:absolute;
margin-top: 125px;
}
The issue here is related to your use of a fixed header.
Take a look at this:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/XXpggN
All I did was put some padding on the top of the div with the h2 in it, which brought it out from underneath the header. For future reference, a fixed position header will float above the rest of the contents, so the next elements that you add are going to begin appearing right at the very top of the body because the header div floating up top there is not occupying any space on the main body page.
If you ever want to organize your divs in a manner such as this, you just need to specify the z-index values of the divs. In this case though, all you needed was to push the first element (h2 div) down a bit.
position:inherit; padding-top:110px;
your header overwrite other tag.
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
}
header{
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 50px;
background-color: black;
width: 100%;
}
ul{
float: right;
padding-right: 15px;
text-align: center;
}
ul li{
list-style: none;
display: inline-block;
padding: 15px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
}
ul li a{
text-decoration: none;
color:white
}
a:hover{
font-size: 20px;
color: green;
}
header h1{
color: red;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 20px;
}
body{
background-color: back;
}
nav{
margin-right: 38%;
}
h2{
color: blue;
background-color: white;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>TryOne</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>My Portfolio</h1>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Work</li>
<li>Testimonials</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
<div>
<h2>Hello!</h2>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS:
h2 {
color: blue;
background-color: white;
text-align: center;
}
header {
background-color: black;
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
}
Hope this work :)
I am trying to make a basic site with HTML & CSS, with a navigation bar, but I have a problem with it [below]:
body
{
background-color: #666;
}
.font_title
{
font-family: "Segoe UI";
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
#title
{
width: 800px;
}
#container
{
position: relative;
margin: auto;
width: 800px;
height: 995px;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}
#navigation_holder
{
position: relative;
margin: auto;
width: 800px;
}
.navigation_button
{
font-family: "Segoe UI";
text-align: center;
font-size: 26px;
width: 200px;
height: 40px;
background-color: #09C;
}
.navigation_button:hover
{
background-color: #09F;
}
<div id="container"> <!-- The main container -->
<div class="font_title", id="title"> Our Site</div>
<div id="navigation_holder">
<div id="navigation_button_1", class="navigation_button"> Home </div>
<div id="navigation_button_2", class="navigation_button"> About </div>
<div id="navigation_button_3", class="navigation_button"> Services </div>
<div id="navigation_button_4", class="navigation_button"> Contact </div>
</div>
<!-- More DIVs in the container -->
</div>
The problem is - all my navigation buttons are stacked up ontop of each other, not on a row. What am I doing wrong?
Instead of making them divs, use anchor tags inside lists. Here's the image and the complete working code for you:
<html>
<head>
<style>
body
{
background-color: #666;
}
.font_title
{
font-family: "Segoe UI";
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
#title
{
width: 800px;
}
#container
{
position: relative;
margin: auto;
width: 800px;
height: 995px;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}
#navigation_holder
{
position: relative;
margin: auto;
width: 800px;
}
.navigation_button
{
font-family: "Segoe UI";
text-align: center;
font-size: 26px;
width: 200px;
height: 40px;
background-color: #09C;
}
.navigation_button:hover
{
background-color: #09F;
}
ul
{
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
overflow:hidden;
}
li
{
float:left;
}
a:link,a:visited
{
display:block;
width:200px;
font-family: "Segoe UI";
text-align: center;
font-size: 26px;
width: 200px;
height: 40px;
background-color: #09C;
}
a:hover,a:active
{
background-color: #09F;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container"> <!-- The main container -->
<div class="font_title", id="title"> Our Site</div>
<div id="navigation_holder">
<ul>
<li id="navigation_button_1" > Home </li>
<li id="navigation_button_2" > About </li>
<li id="navigation_button_3" > Services </li>
<li id="navigation_button_4" > Contact </li>
</ul>
</div>
<!-- More DIVs in the container -->
</div>
</body>
</html>
The problem is that divs are block elements, thus they naturally position themselves on top of each other. You can use several methods to get them to behave. Applying a display: inline-block to your .navigation_button class is what I would prefer in most cases. In this case, however, a float: left will work just as well.
The two methods have their benefits and drawbacks, but floats can become problematic because they essentially become unrecognizable to non-floated elements (in the same way position: absolute does).
As an aside, if I were you, I'd pull the height off your container, change #navigation_holder to a <nav>, and perhaps even pull the ids (and possibly even the classes!) off of your individual navigation elements. Heck, you could even take out the inner divs entirely, and replace them with a ul whose li were display: inline (it would be more semantic).
You could then reference them like this:
.navigation_holder ul li {
display: inline;
padding-left: 40px; /* or whatever */
}
And if you need to target only the first or last:
.navigation_holder ul li:first-of-type {
// styles
}
.navigation_holder ul li:last-of-type {
// styles
}
To pop the default styles off the ul:
.navigation_holder ul {
list-style-type: none;
}
A reply to your question, and a question to your question...
What are you looking for?
Here are 3 examples:
1 Providing you wanted a normal left hand horizontal inline-list you would do:
HTML
<div id="navigation_holder">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Services</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
#navigation_left ul
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}
#navigation_left ul li { display: inline; }
#navigation_left ul li a
{
font-family:"Helvetica Neue","Helvetica",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
text-decoration: none;
padding: .2em 1em;
color: #DDD;
background-color: #0099CF;
border-radius: 4px;
}
#navigation_left ul li a:hover
{
color: #FFF;
background-color: #00BEF9;
}
2 Providing you want to center your li elements.
HTML
<div id="navigation_center">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Services</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
#navigation_center ul
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
text-align: center;
}
#navigation_center ul li { display: inline; }
#navigation_center ul li a
{
font-family:"Helvetica Neue","Helvetica",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
text-decoration: none;
padding: .2em 1em;
color: #DDD;
background-color: #0099CF;
border-radius: 4px;
}
#navigation_center ul li a:hover
{
color: #FFF;
background-color: #00BEF9;
}
3 Providing you want to center your li elements with a solid background.
HTML
<div id="navigation_center_full">
<ul class="full">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Services</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
#navigation_center_full ul
{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
text-align: center;
padding: .2em 1em;
color: #DDD;
background-color: #0099CF;
}
#navigation_center_full ul li { display: inline; }
#navigation_center_full ul li a
{
font-family:"Helvetica Neue","Helvetica",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
text-decoration: none;
padding: .2em 1em;
color: #DDD;
background-color: #0099CF;
border-radius: 4px;
}
#navigation_center_full ul li a:hover
{
color: #FFF;
background-color: #00BEF9;
}
Pretty sure this should help you.
Why you dont use <ul> and <li> tags? I think is better. Then in CSS you must use:
display: inline
One example in: http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_float5