HTML CSS Navigation Menu positioning text and images

Question

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HTML

<div id="pageTop"> 
    <nav>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="apps/fade-ifit.html"> <img src="images/search.png" alt="" class="headerCon" /> <navText> Home </navText> </a> </li>

        </ul>
    </nav>
</div>

CSS

nav > ul > li > a {
    color: #aaa;

}



nav > ul > li > div ul > li {
    display: block;
}

Answer 1

You can make the <img> elements block elements and center them using an auto margin.

ul img {
    display : block;
    margin  : 0 auto;
}

Another would be to use background images along with a background position :

ul li.home {
    background-image    : url(...);
    background-position : center;
}

You will probably also want to remove the spaces between the <li> elements. I like doing this by omitting the optional closing tags so you would have:

<ul>
    <li><a href=...><img src=... />Item 1
    <li><a href=...><img src=... />Item 2
    ...
</ul>

Other options for removing spaces can be found here: How to remove the space between list items

Edit : JSFiddle added with a stripped down version to show how this could work.

Answer 2

just put a line break in the <li>

   <li><a href="..."> <img src="..." class="headerCon" /> <br/>
        <navText> Home </navText> </a> 
   </li>

I would take out the <navText> too, that's not valid HTML

   <li><a href="..."> <img src="..." class="headerCon" /> <br/>
        Home </a> 
   </li>