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Asked: 2026-05-26T20:09:03+00:00

OK! I just started HTML and CSS today and thought it would be a

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OK! I just started HTML and CSS today and thought it would be a good approach to learn by building something rather than just reading some text.

[ http://jsfiddle.net/GUkrK/ ]

So I decided to build one sample navigation bar. 

<html>
<head>
    <title> navigation bar </title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="menu.css">
</head>
<body>
    <ul id="menu">
        <li id="menu1">
            <a href="http://www.google.com">
                <span>GOOGLE</span>
            </a>
        </li>
        <li id="menu2">
            <a href="http://www.github.com">
                <span>GITHUB</span>
            </a>
        </li>
        <li id="menu3">
            <a href="http://www.quora.com">
                <span>QUORA</span>
            </a>
        </li>
        <li id="menu4">
            <a href="http://www.facebook.com">
                <span>FACEBOOK</span>
            </a>
        </li>
    </ul>
    <hr/>
</body>
</html>

and the css

ul {
    list-style:none;
color:red;
}

#menu {
    float:left;
    vertical-align:middle;
    display:block;
    width:600px;
    height:108px;
}

#menu li {
    display:inline;
    font-size:20px;
    padding:0px;
}

#menu a:link {
    color:white;
    font-weight:bold;
    padding:20px;
    background-color:#27A285;
}

#menu a:hover {
    background-color:#E1C618;
    color:brown;
}

hr {
    height:5px;
    background-color:red;
}

But now my problem is the positioning of that horizontal line. Do I have to place that by setting the pixels in absolute or relative positioning? Can’t it be done automatically?
And how come the horizontal line does not cover the total width of the browser? and Can I adjust the width of that horizontal line?

EDIT: Thanks everyone. Here is the edited sample http://jsfiddle.net/sunu0000/zdDU5/

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  1. Editorial Team

    Remove float: left; from the CSS definition of #menu.

    Sample

    http://jsfiddle.net/Y8AAH/3/

    CSS for #menu

    #menu {
    vertical-align:middle;
    display:block;
    width:600px;
    height:108px; /* Looks better with like: 40px !! */ 
}

    Depending on what your layout should look like this definition may be sufficient:

    #menu {
    display:block;
    height:108px; /* Looks better with like: 40px !! */ 
}

    Updated sample: http://jsfiddle.net/Y8AAH/4/

    Updated sample with centered menu

    #menu {
    height:40px;
    text-align: center;
}

    http://jsfiddle.net/Y8AAH/5/

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