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CSS How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Style New Pages

Posted by Josh Cypher
Josh Cypher
4,954 Points

UL will not horizontally center

I cannot get the Nav UL to horizontally center on the page. Please help!

Josh Cypher
Josh Cypher
4,954 Points

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="uft-8">
    <title>Joshua Cypher | Developer</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <header>
      <a href="index.html" id="logo">
        <h1>Joshua Cypher</h1>
        <h2>Developer</h2>
      </a>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
          <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>
    <div id="wrapper">
      <section>
        <ul id="gallery">
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Experiment with color and texture</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Blending modes</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
              <p>80's glows</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Photoshop brush drips</p>
            </a>
          </li>
          <li>
            <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
              <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
              <p>Shapes with repetition</p>
            </a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </section>
    </div>
    <footer>
      <a class="social-icon" href="http://twitter.com/joshuacypher"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo"></a>
      <a class="social-icon" href="http://facebook.com/josh.cypher"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo"></a>
      <p>&copy; 2014 Joshua Cypher</p>
    </footer>
  </body>  
</html>

main.css

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

body {
  font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}

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

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

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

header {
  float: left;
  margin: 0 0 30px 0;
  padding: 5px 0 0 0;
  width: 100%;

}

#logo {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
}

h1 {
  font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif;
  margin: 16px;
  font-size: 1.75em;
  font-weight: normal;
  line-height: 0.8em;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 0.75em;
  margin: -5px 0 0;
  font-weight: normal;
}



/***********
NAV
************/

nav {

  padding: 10px 0;
  margin: 20px 0 0;
}

nav ul {
  list-style: none;
  text-align: center;
  margin: auto;
  padding 0 50px;

}

nav ul li { 

  display: inline-block;
  margin: 0 10px 0 10px;
}

nav a{
  font-weight: 800;
  padding 15px 10px;  
}



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

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

.social-icon {
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
  margin: 0 5px;  
}

/***********
Page: Portfolio
************/

#gallery {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  list-style: none;  
}

#gallery li {
  float: left;
  width: 45%;
  margin: 2.5%;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}

#gallery li a p {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5%;
  font-size: 0.75em;
  color: #bdc3c7;
}



/***********
Page: Portfolio
************/

.profile-photo {
  display:block;
  max-width: 150px;
  margin: 0 auto 30px;
  border-radius: 100%;  
}




/***********
COLOR
************/

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

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

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

/* nav background on mobile */
nav{
  background: #599a68;
}

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


/* nav links */
nav a, nav a:visited {
 color: #fff; 
}

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

2 Answers

Josh Cypher
Josh Cypher
4,954 Points

Aha. While this is correct, and I understand it, it turns out there was 40 px of padding under <ul> of my normalize.css file. Looks like the copy treehouse provided on the video was bad :(

Jeremy Germenis
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 Points
Jeremy Germenis
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 Points

Apply these two properties to an unordered list to make the list items center:

ul { text-align: center; }

ul li { display: inline-block; }