CSS - Vertically Center Ul/li Menu In Div

Hi all,

I know there are certain tricks to vertically center texts or images in a div area.

And I have read somewhere there are plans to avoid current complexity compared with tables.

For example, provided I use same CSS...

Code:

div,table{
  width: 250px;
  height: 100px;
  border: 1px solid red;
  text-align: center;
}

...we optain well vertically centered text in this table...

Code:

<table>
  <tr><td>this IS vertically centered</td></tr>
</table>

...but not in this div based one...

Code:

<div>this IS NOT vertically centered</div>

I ask, do you know an easy way to acomplish the same we get with tables?

Thanks!

EDIT: no longer required




All the text is at the top of the menus, how do i get them so they are in the center of the divs ?

Code:

#navbar2 { float:right; position:relative; }
ul.menu2 { list-style-type:none; margin:0; padding:0; }
#navbar2 .leaf2 { width:70px; height:35px; float: left; display: inline; list-style-type:none; display:inline; text-align:center; color:#F7941D; font-weight:bold; font-size:12px; background-color:#2E2E2E; margin-left:8px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; opacity:0.85; filter:alpha(opacity=85); }
#navbar2 li:hover, #navbar2 li.active { opacity:1; filter:none; }
#navbar2 li a { width:70px; height:35px; display:block; padding-top:3px; }
.leaf2 a { width:70px; }

Code:

  <div id="navbar2">
    <ul class="menu2">
      <li class="leaf2<? if ($activePage=="home") {?> active<? } ?>"><a href="." title="Home">home</a></li>
      <li class="leaf2<? if ($activePage=="item2") {?> active<? } ?>"><a href="2.php" title="2">item<br>2</a></li>
      <li class="leaf2<? if ($activePage=="item3") {?> active<? } ?>"><a href="3.php" title="3">item<br>3</a></li>
      <li class="leaf2<? if ($activePage=="item4") {?> active<? } ?>"><a href="4.php" title="4">item4</a></li>
      <li class="leaf2<? if ($activePage=="item5") {?> active<? } ?>"><a href="5.php" title="5">item5</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div>		

I know vertical-align works great on one line of text, but I can't get this script to vertically (and horizontally) center two lines of text. What do I need to do change without changing the size of the div?

Code:

echo '<div style="float:left;width:171px;height:96px;text-align:center;display:table-cell;vertical-align:text-middle;background-color:yellow;">';
echo '<h1 >1/35 Scale House</h1>';
echo '</div>';

Hi there,

I have two font sizes: 22px and 12px. However, If I use the 2 sizes next to each other, the large pushes the smaller on down. I tried to use vertical-align: middle to center them vertically, but it didn't work.

How can I center them vertically?

Thanks!

I'm trying to position the image below vertically center and horizontally left to no avail. Its horizontally left but centers the top of the image in the center of the page. What am I doing wrong?

<DIV style="position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 0px; border: none"><img src="images/right.jpg"></img></DIV>

The menu left aligns - from float left but even if I put the UL in a div and auto the borders it won't center.
Any ideas?

Code:

<div id="banner" align="center"><a href="mysite.com"><img src="images/top_banner.jpg" border="0"></a></div>
<ul id="menu">
	<li><a href="1.html" title=">1</a></li>
	<li><a href="2.html" title=">2</a></li>
	<li><a href="3.html" title=">3</a></li>
	<li><a href="4.html" title=">4</a></li>
	<li><a href="5.html" title=">5</a></li>
    	<li><a href="6.html" title=">6</a></li>
</ul>

I then have the following CSS:

Code:

#banner {
	background: url("images/header_split.jpg") bottom right repeat;
	float: left;
	list-style: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	width: 100%;
}
 
#menu {
	background: #5a5152;
	float: left;
	list-style: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	width: 100%;
}
 
#menu li {
	float: left;
	font: 67.5% "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Trebuchet Unicode MS", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}
 
#menu a {
	background: #5a5152 url("images/seperator.gif") bottom right no-repeat;
	color: #ccc;
	display: block;
	float: left;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 8px 12px;
	text-decoration: none;
}
 
#menu a:hover {
	background: #2580a2 url("images/hover.gif") bottom center no-repeat;
	color: #fff;
	padding-bottom: 8px;
}

The menu left aligns - from float left but even if I put the UL in a div and auto the borders it won't center.

Any ideas?

Hi,

For some reason I can't get the main menu to center, nor will the background color (light blue) extend all the way to the right. You can see what I mean he

http://www.granddistraction.com

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

I want to center a horizontal menu (not the words - the entire menu). Everything I read says I need to insert align-text: center into the #menu ul portion of my CSS. However, I've tried that and it doesn't work for me. I'm using Dreamweaver for my editing and I'm rather new to CSS.

The CSS code I have for the menu is:
Code:

#menuwrapper {width: 1280px;
              height: 25px;
              background: #FFC557 url(images/menu_background.jpg) repeat-x;
              color: #000;}

#menu, #menu ul {display: inline;
                 margin: 0;
                 padding: 0;
                 list-style: none;}

#menu li {display: block;
          float: left !important;
          padding: 0;
          margin: 0;
          line-height: 25px;
          position: relative;
		  left: 19px;}

#menu a {height: 25px;
         width: 85px;
         background: #FFC557 url(images/button.jpg) no-repeat;
         color: #000;
         display: block;
         font-size: 105%;
         font-weight: bold; 
         text-align: center;
         text-decoration: none;
         border-left: 1px solid #000;}

#lastbutton {border-right: 1px solid #000;}

#menu a:hover {background-position: 0 -25px;}

Now how the heck do I center the menu as opposed to having it aligned to the left???

This is my page

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>123</title>
<link href="oto.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
* {
margin : 0;
padding : 0;
}
html, body, #wrap {
height : 100%;
margin : 0 auto;
width : 980px;
background-color : #666666;
}
body > #wrap {
height : auto;
min-height : 100%;
width : 980px;
background-color : #333333;
}
a img {
border : none;
}
#main {
height : 200px;
background-color : #999999;
}
#nav {
height : 35px;
}
#sad {
padding-bottom : 200px;
background-color : #999999;
height : 500px;
}
#footer {
position : relative;
margin-top : -200px;
height : 200px;
clear : both;
background-color : #000000;
}
.clearfix:after {
content : ".";
display : block;
height : 0;
clear : both;
visibility : hidden;
}
.clearfix {
display : inline-block;
}
* html .clearfix {
height : 1%;
}
.clearfix {
display : block;
}
.menu {
border : none;
border : 0;
margin : 0;
padding : 0;
font : 67.5% "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Trebuchet Unicode MS", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 14px;
font-weight : bold;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.menu ul {
background : #333333;
height : 35px;
list-style : none;
padding : 0;
}
.menu li {
float : left;
padding : 0;
}
.menu li a {
background : #333333 url("images/seperator.gif") no-repeat bottom right;
color : #cccccc;
display : block;
font-weight : normal;
line-height : 35px;
margin : 0;
padding : 0 25px;
text-align : center;
text-decoration : none;
}
.menu li a:hover, .menu ul li:hover a {
background : #2580a2 url("images/hover.gif") no-repeat bottom center;
color : #ffffff;
text-decoration : none;
}
.menu li ul {
background : #333333;
display : none;
height : auto;
padding : 0;
margin : 0;
border : 0;
position : absolute;
width : 250px;
z-index : 200;
}
.menu li:hover ul {
display : block;
}
.menu li li {
background : url('images/sub_sep.gif') no-repeat bottom left;
display : block;
float : none;
margin : 0;
padding : 0;
width : 250px;
}
.menu li:hover li a {
background : none;
}
.menu li ul a {
display : block;
height : 35px;
font-size : 12px;
font-style : normal;
margin : 0;
padding : 0 10px 0 15px;
text-align : left;
}
.menu li ul a:hover, .menu li ul li:hover a {
background : #2580a2 url('images/hover_sub.gif') no-repeat center left;
border : 0;
color : #ffffff;
text-decoration : none;
}
.menu p {
clear : left;
}
-->
</style></head>

<body>
<div id="wrap">
<div id="main" class="clearfix">header</div>
<div id="nav">

<div class="menu">
                <ul>
	            <li><a href="#" ><img src="images/bth.png" alt="Oto Nautika"></a></li>
	            <li><a href="#">Aaaaaa</a>
			    <ul>
				<li><a href="#">1</a></li>
				<li><a href="#">2</a></li>
				<li><a href="#">3</a></li>
			    </ul>
		        </li>
		        <li><a href="/faq.php">Bbbbbbb</a>
                <ul>
                <li><a href="#">1</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">2</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">3</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">4</a></li>
                </ul>
                </li>
            	<li><a href="/faq.php">Cccccccccc</a>
                <ul>
                <li><a href="#">1</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">2</a></li>
                </ul>
                </li>
            	<li><a href="/faq.php">Ddddddd</a>
                <ul>
                <li><a href="#">1</a></li>
                </ul>
                </li>
            	<li><a href="/faq.php">Eeeeeee</a>
                <ul>
                <li><a href="#">1</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">2</a></li>
                </ul>
                </li>
            	<li><a href="/faq.php">Ffffff</a>
                <ul>
                <li><a href="#">1</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">2</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">3</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">4</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">5</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">6</a></li>
                </ul>
                </li>
		        </ul>
</div>

</div>
<div id="sad">content</div>
<div id="footer">footer</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I can't center the menu horizontally, I've tried a lot of methods.

The last one I tried was Matt James Taylor's on his blog, but to no avail.

I can't get it to work, so if anyone has ideas how to make the menu always in the center of the page....thanks

I'm embedding menumatic into a joomla 1.6 based website.
Menumatic is just a slick css suckerfish menu with some mootools effects. http://greengeckodesign.com/menumatic

Anyway, I've edited the CSS to look ALMOST right. The only problem is that I cannot get the menu as a whole to center correctly on the page.

Anybody have any ideas about how i can do this?
(In addition to the 100's of things I've tried, I've tried putting it in another set of div's and centering that div, but it didn't work )

below is all the code. I left the JS out, since it also runs (a bit less prettily) on pure css. Also, I have verified the CSS at w3. There are four lines that are not standard, but they are to do with the rounded corner borders, not the spacing or alignment.

Edit: A bit more playing around and I have think it is a conflict with floating the items left. They need to display:block in order to display correctly so they also need to float (left) since they would otherwise be on separate lines (I think).

Anybody have an idea about how to get around this?

I tried to justify the text (that would be fine for my purposes), but it didn't work either.


CSS:

Code:

#mainMenu{
background-color: #036;
padding: 0px;
font-size: medium;
text-align: center;
}

/* Based partially on Matthew Carroll's keyboard accessible flavor of Suckerfish 
 * Dropdowns by Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb. 
 * http://carroll.org.uk/sandbox/suckerfish/bones2.html
 */

/* ----[ LINKS ]----*/

/* all menu links */
.menuMain a, #subMenusContainer a{
	text-decoration:none;
	display:block;
	padding:10px 20px;
	background-color:#036 ;
	-moz-border-radius: 7px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 7px;
}

/* Just main menu links --[for non-javascript users this applies to submenu links as well]*/
.menuMain a{
	margin:0;
	float:left;
        color:#fff;
        
}

/* Just sub menu links */
#subMenusContainer a, .menuMain li li a{
	
}

/* All menu links on hover or focus */
.menuMain a:hover, .menuMain a:focus, #subMenusContainer a:hover, #subMenusContainer a:focus, .menuMain a.mainMenuParentBtnFocused, #subMenusContainer a.subMenuParentBtnFocused{
	background-color:#06c ;
	color:#FFF;
}

/* sub menu links on hover or focus */
#subMenusContainer a:hover, 
#subMenusContainer a:focus, 
.menuMain a.mainMenuParentBtnFocused, 
#subMenusContainer a.subMenuParentBtnFocused,
.menuMain li a:hover,
.menuMain li a:focus{
	background-color:#06c ;
	color:#FFF;
}

/* Parent Sub Menu Links ---[javascript users only]*/
.subMenuParentBtn{ 
	background: url(../ottest/templates/ot_template/images/arrow_right.gif) right center no-repeat;  
}

/* Parent Sub Menu Links on hover or focus ---[javascript users only]*/
.subMenuParentBtnFocused{ 
	background: url(../ottest/templates/ot_template/images/arrow_right_over.gif) right center no-repeat;  
}

/* Parent Main Menu Links ---[javascript users only]*/
.mainMenuParentBtn{	
	 background: url(../ottest/templates/ot_template/images/arrow_down.gif) right center no-repeat; 
}

/* Parent Main Menu Links on hover or focus ---[javascript users only]*/
.mainMenuParentBtnFocused{	
	background: url(../ottest/templates/ot_template/images/arrow_down_over.gif) right center no-repeat; 
}

/* ----[ OLs ULs, LIs, and DIVs ]----*/

/* Submenu Outer Wrapper - each submenu is inside a div with this class - javascript users only */
.smOW{ 
	display:none; 
	position: absolute; 
	overflow:hidden; 
	/*the 2px left & right padding lets you have a 1px border 
	  on the ul or ol inside since overflow is set to hidden*/
	padding:0 2px;
	margin:0 0 0 -2px;
}


/* All ULs and OLs */
.menuMain, .menuMain ul, .menuMain ol, #subMenusContainer ul, #subMenusContainer ol { 
	padding: 0;
	margin:0 20px 0 0;
	list-style: none;
	line-height: 1em;
}

/* All submenu OLs and ULs */
.menuMain ol, .menuMain ul, #subMenusContainer ul, #subMenusContainer ol {	
	/*border around submenu goes here*/	 
	-moz-border-radius: 8px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 8px;
	background:#036;	
	left:0;
}


/* List items in main menu --[for non-javascript users this applies to submenus as well]  */
.menuMain li { 

	/*great place to use a background image as a divider*/
	display:block;
	list-style:none;
margin:0 5px;
	position:relative;
	float:left;

}

#subMenusContainer li{
	list-style: none;
}

/* main menu ul or ol elment */
.menuMain{
	display:block;
	list-style:none;
	margin-top:0px;
	margin-bottom:0px;
	margin-left:40px;
	margin-right:auto;
	z-index:5;
	text-align: center;
	display:block;
}

#subMenusContainer{	display:block; 	position:absolute;	top:0;	left:0;	width:100%;	height:0;	overflow:visible;	z-index:1000000000; }


/* --------------------------[ The below is just for non-javscript users ]--------------------------*/
.menuMain li li{	float:none; }

.menuMain li li a{ /* Just submenu links*/	
	position:relative;
	float:none;
}

.menuMain li ul { /* second-level lists */
	position: absolute;
	width: 10em;
	margin-left: -1000em; /* using left instead of display to hide menus because display: none isn't read by screen readers */
	margin-top:2.2em;
}

/* third-and-above-level lists */
.menuMain li ul ul { margin: -1em 0 0 -1000em; }
.menuMain li:hover ul ul {	margin-left: -1000em; }

 /* lists nested under hovered list items */
.menuMain li:hover ul{	margin-left: 0; }
.menuMain li li:hover ul {	margin-left: 10em; margin-top:-2.5em;}

/* extra positioning rules for limited noscript keyboard accessibility */
.menuMain li a:focus + ul {  margin-left: 0; margin-top:2.2em; }
.menuMain li li a:focus + ul { left:0; margin-left: 1010em; margin-top:-2.2em;}
.menuMain li li a:focus {left:0;  margin-left:1000em; width:10em;  margin-top:0;}
.menuMain li li li a:focus {left:0; margin-left: 2010em; width: 10em;  margin-top:-1em;}
.menuMain li:hover a:focus{ margin-left: 0; }
.menuMain li li:hover a:focus + ul { margin-left: 10em; }

The menu html (an excerpt)
Code:

<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="MenuMatic.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="mainMenu" style="width:950px;">
					
<ul class="menuMain"> 

	<li id="item-101" class="current active"><a href="/ottest/" >Home</a></li>
	<li id="item-102" class="deeper parent"><a href="/ottest/currentissuemenu" >Current Issue</a>
		<ul>
			<li id="item-133"><a href="/ottest/currentissuemenu/test-item-menu" >Test item menu</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>
	<li id="item-103"><a href="/ottest/otblogmenu" >OT Blog</a></li>
	<li id="item-104"><a href="/ottest/previousissuesmenu" >Previous Issues</a></li>
	<li id="item-105"><a href="/ottest/classifiedsmenu" >Classifieds</a></li>
	<li id="item-124"><a href="/ottest/contact-us" >Contact Us</a></li>
</ul> 
	
</div>
</body>
</html>

I am trying to create a website for my business and I cannot seem to center the navigation at the top of the screen and have the areas to the left and right of the screen be filled with the same bg color as the UL. I know usually you would set the margins to 0 auto to center that element on the page but for some reason its not working and the UL is just sticking to the left part of the screen. If anybody knows how to get this centered or how to fix my html/css i would sincerely appreciate it. Here is my code (html then css):

<body>
<div class="wrap">
<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="products.html" target="_self" >Products</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="seaisland.html" target="_self">Sea Island Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="grandoak.html" target="_self">Grand Oak Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="airflow.html" target="_self">Air-Flow </a></li>
<li><a href="pure.html" target="_self">Pure Visor</a></li>
<li><a href="coldweather.html" target="_self">Cold Weather</a></li>
<li><a href="fahrenheit.html" target="_self">Fahrenheit Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="caddietowels.html" target="_self">Caddie Towels</a></li>
<li><a href="woventowels.html" target="_self">Woven Towels</a></li>
<li><a href="sunprotection.html" target="_self">Sun Protection</a></li>
<li><a href="" target=""></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="embelishments.html" target="_self" >Embellishments</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="embroidery.html" target="_self">Embroidery</a></li>
<li><a href="wovenlabels.html" target="_self">Woven Labels</a></li>
<li><a href="medallions.html" target="_self">Medallions</a></li>
<li><a href="laserappliques.html" target="_self">Laser Appliques</a></li>
<li><a href="ballmarkers.html" target="_self">Ball Markers</a></li>
<li><a href="ultrasuede.html" target="_self">Ultra Suede</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="specials.html" target="_self" >Specials</a> </li>
<li><a href="whatsnew.html" target="_self" >Whats New</a> </li>
<li><a href="order.html" target="_self" >Order</a> </li>
<li><a href="contact.html" target="_self" >Contact</a> </li>
</ul>
</div>


body{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #333333;
background-color:#b7b7b7;
padding: 0px;
overflow:auto;
border: #0F0 solid 5px;
margin: auto;
}

.wrap{
margin:0 auto;
background-color:b7b7b7;
border:0px;
padding:0px;

}

.menu{
border:0px;
padding:0px;
font: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:14px;
font-weight:bold;
background-color:#F0F;
}
.menu ul{
background:#b7b7b7;
height:35px;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.menu li{
float:left;
padding:0px;
}
.menu li a{
background:#333333 url("images/seperator.gif") bottom right no-repeat;
color:#cccccc;
display:block;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:35px;
margin:0px;
padding:0px 25px;
text-align:center;
text-decoration:none;
}
.menu li a:hover, .menu ul li:hover a{
background: #2580a2 url("images/hover.gif") bottom center no-repeat;
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;
}
.menu li ul{
background:#333333;
display:none;
height:auto;
padding:0px;
margin:0px;
border:0px;
position:absolute;
width:225px;
z-index:200;
/*top:1em;
/*left:0;*/
}
.menu li:hover ul{
display:block;

}
.menu li li {
background:url('images/sub_sep.gif') bottom left no-repeat;
display:block;
float:none;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
width:225px;
}
.menu li:hover li a{
background:none;

}
.menu li ul a{
display:block;
height:35px;
font-size:12px;
font-style:normal;
margin:0px;
padding:0px 10px 0px 15px;
text-align:left;
}
.menu li ul a:hover, .menu li ul li:hover a{
background:#2580a2 url('images/hover_sub.gif') center left no-repeat;
border:0px;
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration:none;
}
.menu p{
clear:left;
}

Please forgive me if this is just a stupid mistake, I'm pretty much a CSS newbie.
I generated a CSS menu (http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/css-menu-generator.shtml) and inserted it into my CSS file. The menu is ok, but it pushed my center column down so that it only touches at a corner, when it should be leveled up and touching along the side. Here's the relevant code:
Quote:
#c-col{
position: relative;
margin: 0px 74px 20px 180px;
border: 1px solid #003366;
background: #333366;
color: #CCFFFF;
padding: 20px;
z-index: 3;
}

.buttonscontainer {width: 174px;}

.buttons a {color: #333366;
border: 1px solid;
background-color: #336699;
padding: 2px;
padding-left: 3px;
font: 12px Arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
border-color: #9999CC #333366 #333366 #9999CC;
display: block;
margin: 0px;
width: 100%;
text-align: left;}

.buttons a:hover {border: 1px solid;
padding-left: 4px;
padding-top: 3px;
padding-bottom: 1px;
padding-right: 1px;
background-color: #6666CC;
border-color: #333366 #9999CC #9999CC #333366;
color: #333366;
text-decoration: none;}

Have I inserted it in the wrong place or is there something missing/redundant? I'd appreciate any suggestions.

I'm simply trying to center a horizontal menu with a drop down.

The two methods I know of to align the list items in the top menu are 1) Code:

li { float: left; }

and 2) Code:

li { display: inline; }

.

The first method is needed for absolute positioning of the drop down list, but it left aligns the top menu.

The second method centers the menu (desired affect) but throws off the drop down placement because the it lacks the containing block.

Works, but left aligned: http://www.highgatecross.com/develo...ered_menu1.html

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<title>Centered</title>
	
	<style type="text/css" title="style" media="all">
		#navigation {
			position: relative;
			margin: 0 auto;
			width: 800px;
			height: 30px;
			background: #9E9670 }	
			
		a {  
			font: 11px verdana, sans-serif;
			color: #54503B;
			text-decoration: none }
		
		#menu { 
			position: relative;
			margin: 0 auto;
			padding: 0; 
			width: 600px; 
			border: 1px solid #c00;
			text-align:center }
		
		#menu li { 
			float: left;
			list-style: none }
		
		#menu li a {
			display: block;
			padding: 7px 25px }
		
		#menu li a:hover {
			color: #F4E9AD }
		
		#menu li ul {  
			position: absolute;
			left: -1000em;
			z-index: 10 }
		
		#menu ul {
			float: left;
			width: 100px;
			list-style: none;
			padding: 0 }
		
		#menu ul li a {
			display: block;
			padding: 7px 10px;
			background-color: #C7BE8D;
			width: 100px }
		
		#menu ul li a:hover {
			background: #F4E9AD; 
			color: #54503B }

		#menu li:hover ul {
			left: auto }
	</style>
	
</head>
<body>
	<div id="navigation">
		
		<ul id="menu">
			<li class="top"><a href="Home">Home</a></li>
			<li class="top"><a href="About">About</a></li>
			<li class="top"><a href="Training">Training</a>
				<ul>
					<li><a href="Overview">Overview</a></li>
					<li><a href="Training_Schedule">Schedule</a></li>
					<li><a href="Training_Contact">Contact</a></li>
				</ul>
			</li>
			<li class="top"><a href="Events">Events</a></li>
			<li class="top"><a href="Contact">Contact</a></li>
		</ul>

	</div>	
</body>
</html>

Centers, but drop down is in the wrong place: http://www.highgatecross.com/develo...ered_menu2.html
Code:

#menu li { 
    display: inline; /* float: left */
    list-style: none }
		
#menu li a {
    display: block; /* delete this line */
    padding: 7px 25px }

Note: I normally have my closing } flush left, but trying to keep it clean for the forum. And yes, this is not IE compatible.

Question: How to I center the top menu and have the drop down placed correctly?

Thanks.

I am using the following code how do I change it so that it would show up in the center of the brower window?

Thanks
Tim
PHP Code:
<div style="position: absolute; left: 0px; z-index: 1; top: 0px; align: center\">
<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" 

codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0

,0\" width=\"544\" height=\"396\" id=\"cardio\" align=\"middle\">
<param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" />
<param name=\"movie\" value=\"ads/cardio3.swf\" />
<param name=\"loop\" value=\"false\" />
<param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" />
<param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" />
<param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" />
<embed src=\"ads/cardio3.swf\" loop=\"false\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" 

bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"544\" height=\"396\" name=\"cardio\" align=\"middle\" 

allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" 

pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\" />
</object>
</div>