apply display: inline-block; and remove the width

think you may need some additional work (js)
for ie browsers - check the less source and look at .help-inline
it may be of help - but I have not looked into it

 - S




On 9 February 2012 21:57, tom12010 <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you...this works -- but the menu is automatically generated and
> its width could change whenever someone (not me) adds a new page to
> the site.
> How does one plan and account for changing list size with this
> method?? Is there another way???
> Normally one can easily center a list of links and not have to worry
> about its size changing -- not with Bootstrap tho.
> nav is also a class declared in bootstrap...
> Thank you, Tom
>
> On Feb 9, 4:43 pm, Sam Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > <ul class="nav nav-tabs" style="width: 600px; margin-left: auto;
> > margin-right: auto">
> >         <li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
> >         <li><a href="#">Profile</a></li>
> >         <li><a href="#">Messages</a></li>
> >       </ul>
> >
> > by default the nav will expand to the full available width
> >
> >  - S
> >
> > On 9 February 2012 21:27, tom12010 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Centering a nav list is easy to do usually...
> >
> > > However, applying text-align:center doesn't cause the nav-pills
> > > content to center...why??
> >
> > > I can write other/different css/list code but I'd really puzzled by
> > > this -- nothing in the css indicates that nav or nav-pills can't be
> > > centered in the browser window.
> >
> > > Thank you, Tom
>

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