Hi Tom (and others doing debugging of CSS issues with Bootstrap),

This may be a bit of a dumb question with an obvious "yes" answer, but just
wondering if you (and others on this mailing list) are using the Web
Inspector with Safari/Chrome browser (or Firebug with Firefox) in order to
determine what is affecting the specific elements that you are having
trouble with, with respect to css layout, styling etc.

If you aren't using the Web Inspector or Firebug right now, I highly
recommend you do as it is a *massively* valuable tool for telling you
what's going on with any particular element on a page (i.e. what styles are
affecting the element, what ones are overriding others, etc) and even
allows you to make real-time edits to your html/css and see what they do to
the page.

Anyhow perhaps you are using it, and still having issues figuring out
what's going on, but if you aren't (and for others on this list that may
not be using it either) I highly recommend using the Web Inspector (or
Firebug for Firefox) and becoming extremely familiar with it - I'm not
aware of any other tool that is more valuable in my mind for debugging
CSS/HTML issues (once you understand and get the hang of it) - and it's
pretty simple to use.

Someone did a video (link below) that explains how to activate/use it (this
shows Safari 4 Web Inspector, however this is also exactly how it works for
Google Chrome and Firefox/Firebug). Internet Explorer I believe also has
developer tools available by hitting F12, although I am not
as familiar with that and it's capabilities.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXdR5eIFZ8k

Rick

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:27 PM, 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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