I\'m using twitter bootstrap to create togglable tabs. Here is the css I\'m using:
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You can just use bootstrap grid to center your nav-tabs. Since bootstrap grid is divided on 12 equals columns, you can easily use 4 columns for your navigation with 4 columns offset:
<div class="col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-4">
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Therefore your are getting your navigation in the middle of the page (also responsive solution) with 4 columns free on the left and the right side.
I found grid really useful for making responsive web pages. Good luck!
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="col-sm-12">
<div class="col-sm-4 col-sm-offset-4">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs">
<li><a href="#home" data-toggle="tab">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#profile" data-toggle="tab">Profile</a></li>
<li><a href="#messages" data-toggle="tab">Messages</a></li>
<li><a href="#settings" data-toggle="tab">Settings</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Try This:
<ul class="nav nav-tabs justify-content-center">
nav-tabs
list items are automatically floated to the left by the bootstrap so you have to reset that and instead display them as inline-block
, and to center menu items we have to add the attribute of text-align:center
to the container, like so:
CSS
.nav-tabs > li, .nav-pills > li {
float:none;
display:inline-block;
*display:inline; /* ie7 fix */
zoom:1; /* hasLayout ie7 trigger */
}
.nav-tabs, .nav-pills {
text-align:center;
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/U8HGz/2/show/ Edit here: http://jsfiddle.net/U8HGz/2/
Edit: patched version that works in IE7+ provided by user @My Head Hurts down in the comments below.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/U8HGz/3/show/ Edit here: http://jsfiddle.net/U8HGz/3/
Accepted answer is perfect. It can be further customized so that you can use it side by side with the standard left aligned tabs.
.nav-tabs.centered > li, .nav-pills.centered > li {
float:none;
display:inline-block;
*display:inline; /* ie7 fix */
zoom:1; /* hasLayout ie7 trigger */
}
.nav-tabs.centered, .nav-pills.centered {
text-align:center;
}
To use it, add "centered" class to your tabs element
<ul class="nav nav-tabs centered" >
..
</ul>
Simply adding
margin-left:50%;
when I set up my tabs, worked for me.
For e.g.
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" style="margin-left:50%; margin-right:50%;">
Bootstrap itself has a class for this regard named nav-justified
. Simply add it like this:
<ul class="nav nav-tabs nav-justified">
If you want to align center content of <li>
as well, make its disply: inline-block
.