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CSS text-align: center; is not centering things

I have the following html:

<div id="footer">
    <ul id="menu-utility-navigation" class="links clearfix">
        <li class="menu-685 menu-site_map first">Site Map
        </li>
        <li class="menu-686 menu-privacy_policy">Privacy Policy
        </li>
        <li class="menu-687 menu-terms___conditions">Terms &amp; Conditions
        </li>
        <li class="menu-688 menu-contact_us last">Contact Us
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

With the following CSS:

div#footer {
    font-size: 10px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align: center;
    width: 700px;
}

I threw in the font-size bit just to see if the style was working (Firebug reports it is working but I wanted to see). It is working. But the text is not centered in the footer in Firefox or in Safari (have yet to check it in IE).

I tried with and without margin: 0 auto; and with and without text-align: center; no combo of those things worked.

Here is output from Firebug:

div#footer {
    font-size: 10px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align: center;
    width: 700px;
}

Inherited fromdiv#page
#skip-to-nav, #page {
    line-height: 1.5em;
}

Inherited frombody.html
body {
    color: #666666;
    font-family: verdana,arial,sans-serif;
}

Help?

Solution

  • I assume you want all the items next to each other, and the whole thing to be centered horizontally.

    li elements are display: block by default, taking up all the horizontal space.

    Add

    div#footer ul li { display: inline }

    once you've done that, you probably want to get rid of the list's bullets:

    div#footer ul { list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px }