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CSS How to Make a Website Styling Web Pages and Navigation Style the Portfolio

Richard Owens
Richard Owens
1,071 Points

My navigation links are not centering, does anyone know where i am going wrong.

/********************************** GENERAL ***********************************/

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding:0 5%; }

a { text-decoration: none; }

img { max-width: 100% }

/********************************** HEADING ***********************************/

logo {

text-align: center; margin: 0;
}

h1 { font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif; margin: 15px 0; font-size: 1.75em }

h2 { font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif; margin: -5px 0 0; font-weight: normal }

/********************************** NAVIGATION ***********************************/

nav { text-align: center; padding: 10px 0; margin: 20px 0 0; }

/********************************** FOOTER ***********************************/

footer {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  text-align: center;
  padding-top: 50px;
  color: #ccc;
  clear: both;

}

/********************************** PAGE:PORTFOLIO ***********************************/

gallery {

margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; }

gallery li {

float: left; width: 45%; margin: 2.5% background-color: #f5f5f5; color: #bcd3c7 }

/********************************** COLORS ***********************************/

/site body/ body { background-color: #fff; color: #999; }

/green header/ header { background: #6ab47b; border-color: #599a68 }

/nav background on mobile devices/ nav { background: #599a68 }

/logo text/ h1, h2 { color:#fff }

/links/ a { color:#6ab47b; }

/nav link/ nav a, nav a:visited { color: #fff }

/selected nav link/ nav a.selected, nav a:hover { color: #32673f; }

1 Answer

Claudio Vismara
Claudio Vismara
3,717 Points

You can't center a < li > that has float:left property. To do this easily you can use this code:

nav {Β text-align: center; } nav li { float: none; display: inline-block; }