I’m trying to keep a list centered when it wraps. The list I’m working on is below:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>This is a test page</title>
<style type="text/css">
#navcontainer{
margin: 10px 0 0 30px;
padding: 0;
height: 20px;
}
#navcontainer ul{
border: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
text-align: center;
}
#navcontainer ul li{
display: block;
float: left;
text-align: center;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
#navcontainer ul li a{
background: #fff;
width: 78px;
height: 18px;
border-top: 1px solid #f5d7b4;
border-left: 1px solid #f5d7b4;
border-bottom: 1px solid #f5d7b4;
border-right: 1px solid #f5d7b4;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
color: #f5d7b4;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
text-align: center;
font: normal 10px/18px "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", verdana, lucida, sans-serif;
}
#navcontainer li#active a{
background: #c60;
border: 1px solid #c60;
color: #fff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li id="active"><a href="#" id="current">Item one</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item two</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item three</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item four</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item five</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body></html>
How can I keep the thing centered? The “float:left” is causing the problems but apparently this is needed to make the things mimick “display:inline.”
This goes without saying that all I need is a simple centered list that stays centered when the list is wrapped. Can this be done?