Quick quesiton - Help with centering

Tania · 01-18-2008, 12:04 PM

Hello, all! I just have a really quick question.

On this website, http://www.injenn.net/~tania/ I can't get the links at the top to center instead of being all the way at the left. Well, I can get it to center, but then it gets all messed up and small and I don't really know what the issue is. If anyone can help, I would be eternally grateful.

Thank you!

funnyman · 01-18-2008, 12:08 PM

Sounds like a css issue. Are you using CSS? You probably have defined somewhere that when the item is centered it has a specific font size. I'm rather bad at CSS (I'm a newb) so I wont give you any code but I bet thats the problem.

Tania · 01-18-2008, 12:18 PM

I am using CSS - I'm pretty new to it, too. I'm weaning myself off Tables and all that '90s stuff.

I didn't know you could define a font-size for whether something is centered or not. I guess it could be the problem.

Taltos · 01-18-2008, 01:12 PM

Hi Tania,

I took a quick look and you appear to have your body broken into 3 main divs. The 2nd main div has no id and has "align='center'". That doesn't really work on divs.

You need to give this second div an id like you have with "masthead" and "container". Assuming you give the nav links div an id of "navbar" then in your CSS, start with something like this:

Code:

#navbar {
   margin: 0 auto;
}

Obviously add whatever else you need to style that div. The margin command sets top and bottom margin to 0 pixels and left and right margin to an equal amount of the space left over. That should center the navbar div. You can add font sizes to it to make sure you get the right font size.

Good Luck

jdspc · 01-19-2008, 11:46 AM

I actually think it looks quite nice as is…
The ‘empty’ space to the right of the nav would make a nice nest for login, time of day or quote/tip of the day info…imo

I dig the logo - btw -

Tania · 03-09-2008, 10:31 PM

Thanks about the logo

Thanks so much for the suggestions, also, I finally got it fixed using the advice and a little tweaking! I've been so busy I haven't edited it until now.

http://injenn.net/~tania

youthx · 03-10-2008, 02:24 AM

They are centrallised arent they??

Tania · 03-10-2008, 10:36 AM

They are now, yes.