CSS Navigation positioning - html

I have been building a site and can't figure out how to center the navigation links. The site is in HTML using a CSS sheet.
I have tried to center them using
margin: 0 auto;
Any suggestions would be great!
The site address is http://tinyurl.com/7x7nzz3
If you would like me to paste all the code into here then please request that however I didn't feel it necessary as the code is openly available from view source

try applying the following css rule to div#header
text-align: center;

First, in your CSS you have this:
#menu li {
float: left;
}
DELETE THIS!
Second, try with this:
#menu
{
text-align: center;
}
It will only center any text in #menu and you can also add this if it doesn't work:
#menu ul, #menu ul li
{
text-align: center;
}
If it doesn't work, I don't know why!

add
display: block;
width: 600px
margin: 0px auto needs an fixed width and a block element !

This works using firebug:
#menu ul {
line-height: normal;
list-style: none;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
width: 600px;
}

CSS is used when one has to print text in a specified format like color,positioning,font etc..
repeatedly after certain intervals.For example say you have 2 type of fonts font1,font2.
Now you want to print the text as follows,
font1
font2
hyperlink(navigation link)
font1
table
font2
Here we have used CSS for two type of fonts that we use repeatedly but not continously and writting the logic for same color,position,font type etc.. each time is a tiresome process hen ce CSS comes into picture lo make our job easy.In this case as, it is alreay writtrn in HTML and navigation links have nothing to do with CSS hence a simple <center> CLICK ME</center> in HTML code would do the required change. <center> tag here indicates that this should be printed in the center and if dont close the tag </center> properly after the use then all the remaining contents on the page would also be centered by dafault.

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Inline image list not aligning with text, breaks structure

So I signed up here because I have something that drives me crazy. I am sure the answer is pretty straight and simple, but I just can see it...
I want to make a small gallery for an article, showing screenshots from different video games. The problem: The list wont align correctly with the text within the content div. No matter what I do. text-align: left just gets it to exactly this position, center and right work. It is like it is aligning on the edge of a div, but there is none. Putting it within the needed <p> tags destroys the text like seen in the picture. Keeping it out of the <p> tags keeps the text like it should be, but the list is exactly at the same place. I tried inline-block, inline, position: absolute etc, but nothing seems to work. I already tried searching the other divs for problems, but I just can't find anything. Here is a picture.
This is the css:
.gallerie {
text-align: left;
width: 100%;
}
.gallerie ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.gallerie li {
display: inline;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
Can't somehow show the HTML part here, but it's just a simple ul li list with images. The whole thing is simple, but something just doesn't.
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
So as I can't get the thing with the code right, here is the direct linkt to the page with that problem: Link to the Problem
I hope this is allowed here. Thank you to the admin for editing, I am new here, and really not used to it. Thank you very much.
So guys, in short:
wanted to add the pictures here, can't post more than two links
Edit:
Funny thing, it works when I put the ul li outside of the article tag. So I would have a workaround.
Edit: The problem seems to be within the article tag. I have both, right and left margin in there. But when I make it to margin 0px, the whole text moves left (thats why I have a margin of 20px there). I guess the problem will be a second unneeded margin.
Edit: I fixed this by taking away the margin-left: 20px; out of the article tag, and added the value to the p tag for that class instead. Works. I don't really know what the error was, but it seems fine now. Thank you all for your help.
Last Edit: You can see the working example when you refresh the link to the site. Thanks for your help.
Your problem is css padding
<ul> tags have default padding. If you set padding: 0; then the spacing should disappear.
I would say set text-align: center; and padding: 0; for the .gallerie class
Is this what you want?
Corresponding css for .gallerie
Padding Example:
.padded {
padding: 10px;
background: red;
}
p {
background: yellow;
}
<div class="padded">
<p>This is some text</p>
</div>
Try adding padding-left: 20px to the <ul> and wrap the text underneath in a <p>
Looking at the link to the page where the issue lies. Just give the .gallerie class padding:0; and a margin-left:15px; (to achieve uniform indentation).
It appears from the page that you may be attempting to wrap the <ul> in a <p>, which is not valid HTML.

H1 and site content disappearing through banner as if they have a negative top margin

I'm a bit of a newbie to programming so posting on here to find some help.
Had a quick question which I'm assuming is easily resolved through custom CSS.
If you check out this post on my WP site you will see the content disappearing through the header.
Can someone please advise what piece of CSS has made this happen and what element I need to alter to set a regular margin?
Thank you,
The line that is causing you trouble is this one:
h1.entry-title { /*spacing to position entry title dimensions & font styles*/
margin:-2em 0em 0.5em 1.5em;
text-decoration: none;
font-size:2.8em;
display:block;
position:relative;
color:#474747;
}
It comes from a blog css file as "http://www.beendorsed.com.au/blog?sccss=1&ver=4.3.1".
In that line, when you comment out the line "margin:-2em 0em 0.5em 1.5em;" (like this: "/* margin:-2em 0em 0.5em 1.5em; */"), all will go back to normal.
To add that style to one set of pages only ("blog posts", for instance):
If you need that margin on one page, or one set of pages (like blog posts), add a class to it, like .post, and in the css file add it too, like this:
.post h1.entry-title { /*spacing to position entry title dimensions & font styles*/
margin:-2em 0em 0.5em 1.5em;
text-decoration: none;
font-size:2.8em;
display:block;
position:relative;
color:#474747;
}
When you add posts (instead of pages), you'll see that the articles are classed as ".post" (probably), just like the ones you are currently seeing are ".page". (I'm guessing the class name. Test it, see what the actual class name is, and use that). Here you have the line that states that class:
<article id="post-21" class="post-21 **page** type-page status-publish hentry">
Try to modify margin value in you .post declaration.
.post {
max-width: 640px;
margin: 130px auto 0px auto;
font-size: 16px;
}
Line 1804 in your style.css file
If you want to apply this just to on, specific page then do:
#post-104 .post {
margin-top: 130px;
}
You could change the #primary definition to be
#primary {
float: right;
width: 66.6666%;
margin-top: 100px
}
adding the margin-top there. You should get used to identifying the elements in a debug session in the browser to help you understand which element you are targeting.
Note that as I went through your CSS, I saw that you have some merge artifacts in the CSS, things like
>>>>>>> Another_Merge_test
which are not helping things for you.

How to put unordered (gif image) list in middle?

I have an unordered list within a body and the body tag is aligned to the center, the text for the ul list goes to the middle but the gif image stays to the left side of the page. How do I fix this?
http://www.student.nvcc.edu/home/kosindi/test/ul.html
That is a link to my website which has an example of my problem.
Please explain your logic, thank you.
as per your HTML code you gave in link just few change will do.
in css
body {
padding-left: 45%; // add this css
text-align: left; // change this css
}
You have two variants, choose one:
1.Use this CSS and it will work:
li { list-style-position: inside; }
2.If you want the basket balls to appear one under another then use this CSS:
body { text-align: left; }
ul { width: 200px; margin: 0 auto; }

Aligning multiple smaller words with one bigger word?

I am learning how to code HTML and CSS, and I decided to make my own website in the process.
My question is: how would I align smaller text to a bigger object, for example, links to different pages on my website neatly aligned under my full name with the links flush to the of the beginning and end of my full name?
I know describing it may have been a bit confusing, so here's an image of what I mean:
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
You can approximate the look and design regardless of the header length, but in the end, CSS doesn't offer as precise typographical tools as you'd need and you will have to nudge the percentages one way or another once you know the length of your actual text.
Sample Jsfiddle
HTML:
<div id="container">
<h1>Large Title Here Etc</h1>
<div id="sub">
<span>music</span>
<span>film</span>
<span>web</span>
<span>photo</span>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
body {
text-align: center;
}
#container {
display: inline-block;
}
h1 {
font-size: 2em;
}
#sub {
font-size: 1em;
display: table;
width: 120%;
box-sizing: border-box;
margin: 0 -10%;
}
#sub span {
display: table-cell;
padding: 0 2%;
}
links flush to the beginning and end of my full name
Get out of the habit of thinking this way as you design websites. This will lead to endless headaches and frustrations for you, as it depends on browser rendering (and possibly rendering bugs), the user's font size, the user's font, and loads of other factors you cannot control. Instead of going for 'pixel precision', the idea is simply to make it look as good as you can on most things.
When designing things like this, consider the markup first. What is the structure of what you're actually writing? In your linked image, Full Name looks to me like a header (perhaps h1), while menus like that are normally done as styled unordered lists (ul) these days. Below is an example of how I might make something similar to what is in your image.
Here is the markup:
<div id="container">
<h1>Full Name</h1>
<ul>
<li>music</li>
<li>film</li>
<li>web</li>
<li>photo</li>
</ul>
</div>
and the CSS used, with comments:
#container { border: 1px solid; }
h1 {
margin-bottom: 0;
text-align: center;
}
ul {
margin: 0.5em;
/* remove default padding inserted by browser */
padding-left: 0;
/* no bullets */
list-style-type: none;
/* this works on inline objects, not just text */
text-align: center;
}
li {
/* hybrid of inline and block; obeys text-align */
/* Also note this does not work in IE <9. Workarounds exist. */
display: inline-block;
padding: 3px;
}
And here is the end result: http://jsfiddle.net/3PLgz/1/

CSS linked images are being underlined ("a" display is set to block)

I have a menu for which I wanted all of the space around the text, within each individual item, to take the user to the specified page. I looked around on the web and found that the best solution is to set the "a" display to block, as follows:
a {
display: block;
height: 100%;
text-decoration: underline;
}
I have managed to get this working perfectly but want to put images in some of them - like a calendar icon for the events option. I notice it is now underlining the links too. Is there any way to get rid of this? The links have padding-right set to 5px if that helps narrow down the cause / solution.
So all the relevant code is as follows:
a {
display: block;
height: 100%;
text-decoration: underline;
}
a > img {
text-decoration: none;
border: none;
padding-right: 5px;
width: 1.8em;
height: 1.8em;
}
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Richard
PS It is Google Chrome in which I am having this problem - I have not currently checked it in any other browsers.
Images are inline elements, so they are treated as part of the text. It's not the image that is underlined, it's the text that contains the image that is underlined, so it doesn't help to prevent underlining for the image.
You can turn the images into block elements by floating them, then they are not part of the text:
a > img {
float: left;
border: none;
padding-right: 5px;
width: 1.8em;
height: 1.8em;
}
I think your best option is to get rid of the underline text-decoration property for the a element, put the link text in a span with common class, and apply text-decoration: underline to that class.
I was running in the same doubt. The text-decoration set to none works for me:
<a href="..." style="text-decoration:none;">
<img src="...">
</a>
As was said befor, you can use a class to make this more generic.
Nice question by the way, It looks totally strange in my website when I saw some minus at the bottom of images. Then I realize that was an underlying.
I tried eveything in the comments to no avail, what worked for me was modifying div which contained all the tags. I have an inkling that they are only underlined when in their absolute default position. Here was the div each tag was wrapped in, no other tricks were applied.
.myDiv {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}