Aligning two lines of horizontal links evenly with CSS - html

Question

I have 6 links, all different character lengths on two lines. I need everything to align evenly. Like this:
Home About Us Location
Contact Visit Schedule
I imagine the way to do this is to make the li a specific width and then apply an appropriate margin to the right side, but for some reason I can't apply a width. If I have the following html skeleton, how would I edit the CSS to accomplish this? I've looked around the web for a solution, but I've haven't found any similar questions because my menu sits on two separate lines.
<div class="footer">
<ul id="footerlinks">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About Us </li>
<li>Location</li>
<br>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Visit</li>
<li>Schedule</li>
</ul>

Answer 1

Fix the width of <ul> and <li>. And remove the <br /> it makes the markup invalid.
HTML
<ul id="footerlinks">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About Us </li>
<li>Location</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Visit</li>
<li>Schedule</li>
</ul>
CSS
#footerlinks { width: 300px; }
#footerlinks li { width: 100px; display: inline-block; }
Demo
Demo(with white-space fix)

Answer 2

Give the li elements a display property of inline-block and a width. Here's a jsfiddle to demonstrate:
li { display: inline-block; width: 100px; }

Answer 3

Check this:
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Source: How do I create tab indenting in html

Answer 4

First, a <br/> is not a valid child element of <ul/>.
To apply a width to an <li/>, you will need to make it a block-level element.
<ul id="footerlinks">
<li>Home</li>
<li>About Us </li>
<li>Location</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Visit</li>
<li>Schedule</li>
</ul>​
and
#footerlinks {
background:#ccc;
overflow:hidden;
padding:5px;
width:300px;
}
#footerlinks li {
float:left;
padding:5px 0;
width:33%;
}​
Here is a working example - http://jsfiddle.net/jaredhoyt/xbvyP/