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Asked: 2026-05-16T08:01:45+00:00

i am trying to center my horizontal <ul> inside a <div> (the yellow stripe

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i am trying to center my horizontal <ul> inside a <div> (the yellow stripe in my example). the markup is below. i know that if <li> were not floated then i could do it by setting left and right margins on <ul> to “auto”, but i do not seem to find a way to get rid of “float” because i need my <li> be block elements so that i could size them. please help!
thanks
konstantin


<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <style type="text/css">
        .container
        {
            background-color: yellow;
        }
        .container li
        {
            border: solid 1px grey;
            display: block;
            float: left;
            height: 100px;
            line-height: 100px;
            list-style-type: none;
            margin: 5px;
            text-align: center;
            width: 100px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">x</a></li>
            <li><div>y</div></li>
        </ul>
        <div style="clear: both;">
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Demo posted, on OP’s behalf, at: jsbin.

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  1. Editorial Team

    is a block level element, and so takes up the entire width of container… also text-align is for aligning text. You could do something like:

    .container ul{
    width:400px;
    margin:0px auto
}
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