Question

OK. Thank you for giving me your precious time to look over this problem.

Basically, I have a “div” which I use at the top of the screen for my navigation bar. It’s a simple navigation bar, just a 80% wide “div” with some text that changes color on hover.

The problem that I’m having is; the text automatically starts at the top of the “div” and I’d like to center it. I’ve tried margins, paddings, floats, “div’s” inside “div’s” etc. etc.

I will post the code here for the navigation bar and if you happen to know how to fix it can you please let me know?

Thanks

HTML CODE:

<div class="header">
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Repairs</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Tune up/ Viruses</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">System Builds</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Cables</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Contact us</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Find us</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Links</a></li>
               <!-- <li><a href="/"><img src="facebook.png"></a></li>   -->
            </ul>
    </div>

CSS CODE:

.header ul { margin:0px;}
        div.header
        {
            width: 80%;
            height: 40px;
            margin-top: none;
            margin-bottom: none;
            margin-left: auto;
            margin-right: auto;
            border-top: none;
            border-left: none;
            border-right: none;
            border-bottom: none;
            background-color:  #575757;
        }
        li
        {
            display: inline;
            font-family: 'open sans,' arial;
            padding-right: 10px;
            padding-top: 10px;
            margin-left: 10px;
            font-size: 20px;
        }
        li a 
        {
            text-decoration: none;
            color: white;
        }
        li a:hover
        {
            color: #00ccff;
        }

Answer 1

You can use a bunch of things to vertically center an element.

The best one for one line elements (elements with just one line of text, for example) is line-height

Set the line-height to be equal the height of its parent:

li { line-height: 40px; }