How to center a horizontal navigation bar - html

I am having trouble centering my navigation bar.
This is the example nav bar I am working with
<style>
/* Begin Navigation Bar Styling */
#nav {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin: 0 0 3em 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
background-color: #f2f2f2;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li {
float: left; }
#nav li a {
display: block;
padding: 8px 15px;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
color: #069;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li a:hover {
color: #c00;
background-color: #fff; }
/* End navigation bar styling. */
</style>
but as seen, the navigation bar is not centered.
I have tried using auto margins but it doesn't work. How do I go about fixing this?

Add text-align:center; to #nav
Remove float:left; and add display: inline-block; to #nav li
Change to this:
#nav {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin: 0 0 3em 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
text-align:center;
background-color: #f2f2f2;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}
#nav li {
display: inline-block;
}
JSFiddle Demo

display: inline-block;
This should center the navigation bar

try this new css:
#nav {
margin: 0 0 3em 0;
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
background-color: #f2f2f2;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
position: relative;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li {
display: inline-block;}
#wrap {
width: 750px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: #fff;
text-align: center;
width:100%;}

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Set box-sizing property to border-box:
li {
box-sizing: border-box;
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You can do it like this:
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul {
margin: 0;
}
ul li {
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margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul li a {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 15px;
display: inline-block;
border-right: 1px solid black;
border-bottom: 1px solid red;
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Make navigation bar item float right

I've been following this tutorial:
http://www.mrc-productivity.com/techblog/?p=1049
I want to make a single item in the navigation bar float to the right, but simply adding float:right; to that particular item didn't do anything. In fact, changing the float:left to float:right only reversed the ordering of the navigation bar items.
Here's a snippet:
#CHARSET "UTF-8";
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#wrap {
width: 100%;
height: 50px;
margin: 0;
z-index: 99;
position: relative;
background-color: #366b82;
}
.navbar {
height: 50px;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
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float: left;
text-align: center;
list-style: none;
font: normal bold 12px/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;
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margin: 0;
background-color: #366b82;
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.navbar a {
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border-right: 1px solid #1f5065;
text-decoration: none;
color: white;
display: block;
}
.navbar li:hover, a:hover {
background-color: #54879d;
}
.navbar li ul {
display: none;
height: auto;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.navbar li:hover ul {
display: block;
}
.navbar li ul li {
background-color: #54879d;
}
.navbar li ul li a {
border-left: 1px solid #1f5065;
border-right: 1px solid #1f5065;
border-top: 1px solid #74a3b7;
border-bottom: 1px solid #1f5065;
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.navbar li ul li a:hover {
background-color: #366b82;
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<body>
<div id="wrap">
<ul class="navbar">
<li>Home</li>
<li>Registers
<ul>
<li>People</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Operational</li>
<li>Financial</li>
<li>Reports</li>
<li id="navright"><a id="logout" href="/login">Logout</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
<li id="navright"><a id="logout" href="/login">Logout</a></li>
Just need to get that "Logout" button to be on the right.
Make the containing UL element have a width of 100%
.navbar {
height: 50px;
width: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
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https://jsfiddle.net/txve55jn/2/

Drop down CSS Menu items appearing horizontally?

I'm having some trouble with CSS (to which I am fairly new) - hoping someone can give some advice after my various internet searches have proven fruitless.
My problem is that I have CSS Menu and I have recently changed the width of the main menu element but am stuggling to resize the drop-down child elements to reflect this new size - the sub-menu items are now also appearing next to each other rather than beneath each other.
Any help is appreciated!
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/anwwgyu8/
CSS:
#wrap2 {
width: 70%;
height: 75px;
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 2190px;
background-color: #2A79BF;
left: 15%;
}
.buttonbar1 {
height: 75px;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
border-right: 1px solid #2A79BF;
left: 0%;
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height: 75px;
width: 25%;
float: left;
text-align: center;
list-style: none;
font: normal bold 12px/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
background-color: #2A79BF;
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padding: 25px 0;
border-left: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
border-right: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
color: white;
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display: block;
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.buttonbar1 a:hover {
color: #E0F0FFC
}
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display: none;
height: auto;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
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display: block;
color: #E0F0FF
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background-color: #2A79BF;
color: #E0F0FF
}
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border-right: 1px solid #1f5065;
border-top: 1px solid #74a3b7;
border-bottom: 1px solid #1f5065;
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border-left: 1px solid #1f5065;
border-right: 1px solid #1f5065;
border-top: 1px solid #74a3b7;
border-bottom: 1px solid #1f5065;
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background-color: #2A79BF;
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width: 100%;
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https://jsfiddle.net/anwwgyu8/11/
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.buttonbar1 li ul li {
display:block;
float:none;
width:100%;
}
.buttonbar1 li ul li{
width:100%;
}
Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/anwwgyu8/6/

Place navigation bar at bottom of header

I have made a navigation bar which functions as I want it to, the only problem is that the bar is placed on the top of my black header, where I would like it to be placed at the bottom of the header. How do I fix this?
My code (html):
<div id="navBarTop">
<ul>
<li>Test</li>
<li>Test</li>
<li>Test</li>
<li>Test</li>
</ul>
</div>
My code (css):
#navBarTop {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin: 0 0 1em 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #FFB700;
border-bottom: 1px solid #4c4c4c;
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list-style: none;
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
margin-left: 350px;
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checkout fiddle for solution: http://jsfiddle.net/pctdwz1f/
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width: 100%;
float: left;
margin: 0 0 1em 0;
padding: 0;
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Center horizontal navigation menu

Struggling to center the nav bar in the middle of the browser... Tried a number of the things found through google but no luck as yet. Seems like it should be such an easy thing to do but its turned out to be a pain in the neck!
Heres the code.
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li class="home">Home</li>
<li class="detail">About</li>
<li class="work">Work</li>
<li class="contact">Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
#nav {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin: 0 0 1em 0;
padding: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav ul {
display: inline-block;
list-style-type: none;
}
#nav li {
float: left; }
#nav li a {
display: block;
padding: 8px 15px;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
color: #069;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li:first-child a {
border-left: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li a:hover {
color: #50B748;
}
Try not using floats but rather display:inline-block instead.
JSfiddle Demo
CSS
ul {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#nav {
//width: 100%; /* not required */
//float: left; /* not required */
margin: 0 0 1em 0;
padding: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav ul {
width:100%;
display: block;
list-style-type: none;
text-align: center; /* add this */
}
#nav li {
//float: left; /* remove */
display: inline-block; /* add this */
}
#nav li a {
display: block;
padding: 8px 15px;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
color: #069;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li:first-child a {
border-left: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li a:hover {
color: #50B748;
}
EDIT - added reset of ul padding/margin
Add a margin-top:50%; to it
just like this:
#nav {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin-top:50%;
padding: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav ul {
display: inline-block;
list-style-type: none;
}
#nav li {
float: left; }
#nav li a {
display: block;
padding: 8px 15px;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
color: #069;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li:first-child a {
border-left: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li a:hover {
color: #50B748;
}
Does this solve your problem?
Or didn't I understand your question ?
Just add text-align: center; in you #nav style. And reset UL default margin It should be like this
HTML
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li class="home">Home</li>
<li class="detail">About</li>
<li class="work">Work</li>
<li class="contact">Contact</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
#nav {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin: 0 0 1em 0;
padding: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav ul {
display: inline-block;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
}
#nav li {
float: left; }
#nav li a {
display: block;
padding: 8px 15px;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
color: #069;
border-right: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li:first-child a {
border-left: 1px solid #ccc; }
#nav li a:hover {
color: #50B748;
}