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Carl Kaufman
Carl Kaufman

Reputation: 29

Center twitter bootstrap navigation items

I'm trying to center my navigation items, what do I need to edit in order to do so? I've looked in the bootstrap.css file and can't find where to change the settings. I can't figure out how to do it I've been trying everything.

<div id="nav" class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top">
<div class="container">
<a class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse">
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</a>

<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-top">  
  <div class="navbar-inner">  
<div class="container">  
<ul class="nav">  
<li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Download</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Play Now</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.07-pk.com/forum/register.php">Register</a></li>
<li class="dropdown">
  <a class="dropdown-toggle" id="dLabel" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown" data-target="#" href="/page.html">
   Login
    <b class="caret"></b>
  </a>
  <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dLabel">
<!-- login form -->
        <form action="http://www.07-pk.com/forum/login.php" method="post" onsubmit="md5hash(vb_login_password,vb_login_md5password,vb_login_md5password_utf)">
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.07-pk.com/forum/clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js"></script>
        Username: <input type="text" class="button" name="vb_login_username" id="navbar_username" size="10" accesskey="u" tabindex="1" value="Username" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Username') this.value = '';" />
        <br />
        Password: <input type="password" class="button" name="vb_login_password" size="10" accesskey="p" tabindex="2" />
        <input type="submit" class="button" value="Login" tabindex="4" title="" accesskey="s" />
        <input type="hidden" name="s" value="" />
        <input type="hidden" name="do" value="login" />
        <input type="hidden" name="forceredirect" value="1" />          
        <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password" />
        <input type="hidden" name="vb_login_md5password_utf" />
        <input type="hidden" name="url" value="http://www.07-pk.com" />
        </form>
        <!-- / login form -->
  </ul>
</li>
</ul>
    </div>  
  </div>  
</div>   
</div>
</div>
</div>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4971

Answers (3)

Dee
Dee

Reputation: 714

Brandon Himpfen give an example of this on his blog. http://www.himpfen.com/center-align-bootstrap-nav-pills/ "In Twitter Bootstrap there are navigation (nav) pills and by default, it is left aligned. We can wrap the navigation with a HTML div element and add a bit of CSS."
http://www.bootply.com/AiyCfTCcBV

/* CSS used here will be applied after bootstrap.css */
.centered-pills {  
    text-align: center;
}
.centered-pills ul.nav-pills {
    display: inline-block;
}
.centered-pills li {
    display: inline;
}
.centered-pills a {
    float: left;
}
* html .centered-pills ul.nav-pills, *+html .centered-pills ul.nav-pills {
    display: inline;
}

<nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">
  <div class="navbar-header">
    <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
      <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      <span class="icon-bar"></span>
    </button>    
  </div>

<div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
    <a class="navbar-brand pull-left" href="#">Brand</a>
    <div class="centered-pills">  
      <ul class="nav nav-pills">
        <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Profile</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Messages</a></li>
      </ul>
      <a class="navbar-brand pull-right" href="#">Brand</a>
    </div>

  </div>

</nav>

Upvotes: 0

ɐsɹǝʌ ǝɔıʌ
ɐsɹǝʌ ǝɔıʌ

Reputation: 4512

Wrap your objects you want to center with this <div>

<div style="width:300px; margin: 0 auto;">

//your code here

</div>

Upvotes: 0

Artyom Neustroev
Artyom Neustroev

Reputation: 8715

Twitter Bootstrap navigation items are having float: left by default. Consider adding the following styles to your own CSS file (or modify the bootstrap.css, which I would not recommend):

.navbar .nav li {
    width: 100px; /* or whatever width you want for items */
    display: inline-block;
    float: none;
}
.navbar .nav {
    float: none;
    text-align: center;
}

Fiddle example

Upvotes: 7

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