Rober Nyman has an article on inline-block http://robertnyman.com/2010/02/24/css-display-inline-block-why-it-rocks-and-why-it-sucks/
often cool things can bite back - S On 9 February 2012 22:11, Sam Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > >
