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Andreas
Andreas

Reputation: 7560

How to make my floated <li>s expand to cover the whole <ul>?

I decided to make my navigation links a styled-up <ul>. How can I make the width of each <li> expand so that they cover the entire <ul>, i.e. the first one starts at left:0 and the last one ends at right:0?

How it looks at lower resolutions is not impor>tant. The red border is the <ul>, the blue one the surrounding <div>.

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This is my current code:

div.nav_container {
    width:960px;
}
ul.nav {
    position:relative;
    list-style:none;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    width:100%;
    border:1px solid red;
}
ul.nav li {
    margin:0 10px; padding:0;
    text-align:center;
    position:relative;
    float:left;
    width:13%;
    background-color:white;
    border:1px solid black;
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 688

Answers (1)

Scott
Scott

Reputation: 21890

ul.nav li {
margin:0; padding:0;
text-align:center;
position:relative;
display: inline-block;
width: 158px;
background-color:white;
border:1px solid black;
}

Width of nav container (960px) divided by number of list items (6) = 160px minus 2px for border (1px each side) = li width of 158px.

Upvotes: 1

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