Question

How do I center align the items WITHIN in my menu? (The lis) I managed to center the menu (ul) within the page of my website but I can’t center the actual items in the menu (Home, About, etc.)

You can edit my HTML/CSS here: http://jsfiddle.net/66reH/
To see the results

CSS/HTML:

#nav {
	font-family: Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 15px;
	color: #fff;
	margin-left:auto;
	margin-right:auto;
	background-color: #eee;
	padding: 5px;
	height: 38px;
	width: 913px;
	font-weight: bold;
	border-style:solid;
	border-width:4px;
	border-color: #000;
}
#nav ul {
	padding: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: 170px;
}
#nav ul li {
	list-style-type: none;
	text-align: center;
	float: left;
	margin: 0px;
}
#nav ul li a {
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #000;
	text-align: center;
	display: block;
	padding: 10px;
	margin: 0px;
}
#nav ul li a:hover {
	color: #CD0000;
}

<div id="nav" align="center">
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#">HOME</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">ABOUT</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">TOUR</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">NEWS</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">PRESS</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">PHILANTHROPY</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">JOBS</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">CONTACT</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

Answer 1

• remove the align property on the #nav div
• Add text-align: center; to the #nav selector CSS
• remove the margin-left property for the ul selector CSS
• add ‘text-align: center; to the ul selector CSS
• remove the float: left; property on the li selector CSS
• add display: inline-block; to the li selector CSS

You didn’t have a centered menu there. You simply added 170px to the left of the UL in the CSS so it sort of looked centered. But it wasn’t.

DEMO HERE