How to align nav-item to center of page

Question

 * { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; } html { font-size: 10px; }.clearfix::after { display: block; clear: both; content: ""; } nav { position: absolute; margin: auto; .nav-container { padding-right: 2rem; padding-left: 2rem; padding-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 2rem; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; .nav-list { list-style-type: none; .nav-item { display: inline-block; padding-left: 2rem; padding-right: 2rem; font-size: 1.2rem; .nav-link { text-decoration: none; color: #fbfdff; } } } } } header { background-color: #313131; height: 50rem; }

 <nav> <div class="nav-container"> <ul class="nav-list"> <li class="nav-item"><a href="#" class="nav-link">HOME</a></li> <li class="nav-item"><a href="#" class="nav-link">ABOUT ME</a></li> <li class="nav-item"><a href="#" class="nav-link">PROJECTS</a></li> <li class="nav-item"><a href="#" class="nav-link">CONTACT</a></li> </ul> </div> </nav>

How can i align nav-item to center of the nav-container? Navbar should has transparent background, so i wanted to add position: absolute; style to nav element. Also all nav-item s should appear side by side. That's why i added display: inline-block; style to them.

Answer 1

Set the width of the nav to full width, and then use text-align: center .

nav {
    width: 100%;
    text-align: center;
}

Answer 2

there are so many ways to that but I'll prefer to use flexbox or css grid in 'nav-list'. here's the example using felxbox:

.nav-list {
          display:flex;
          justify-content:center;
          align-items: center; (if want to align vertically as well)
          list-style-type: none;
}

it will resolve your problem, copy paste and enjoy.

Answer 3

just add this in css and it will be in center

.nav-list{
  display: grid;
  justify-content: center;
}

Answer 4

your styles are not correct css syntax.

 * { margin: 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; } html { font-size: 10px; }.clearfix::after { display: block; clear: both; content: ""; }.nav-container { padding-right: 2rem; padding-left: 2rem; padding-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 2rem; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; }.nav-list { list-style-type: none; }.nav-item { display: inline-block; padding-left: 2rem; padding-right: 2rem; font-size: 1.2rem; }.nav-link { text-decoration: none; } header { background-color: #313131; height: 50rem; }

 <nav> <div class="nav-container"> <ul class="nav-list"> <li class="nav-item"><a href="#" class="nav-link">HOME</a></li> <li class="nav-item"><a href="#" class="nav-link">ABOUT ME</a></li> <li class="nav-item"><a href="#" class="nav-link">PROJECTS</a></li> <li class="nav-item"><a href="#" class="nav-link">CONTACT</a></li> </ul> </div> </nav>