Why won't my list align horizontally center

Question

I\'m working on a basic nav bar project, and I\'ve trying to get this list to align center. I\'ve tried using align-content and text-align, but my bar

Answer 1

Looks like you just need margin: 0 auto; on the child element.

JSFiddle

#bannercontent {
    font-family:'Quicksand:300';
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 25px;
}
.banner {
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0;
    background-color: grey;
    width: 560px;
    height: 40px;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

Answer 2

Its simply can done by balancing your margin .. as you given to right same do with giving left. here is the modified CSS

   @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Quicksand:300);

#bannercontent{
    font-family: 'Quicksand:300';
    align-items: center;
    text-align: center;
    align-content: center;
    font-size: 25px;
}
.banner{
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    background-color: grey;
    width: 560px;
    height: 40px;
    vertical-align: middle;
}
.links{
    text-decoration: none;  
}
.links:hover{
    color: white;
    text-align:center;
}
.bannerlinks
{
    display: inline;
    margin-right: 20px;
    border: 12px;
    border-color: black;
    background-position: 50% 50%;
}

Answer 3

Add the /* the follwoing lines */ to .banner

margin-right:auto; margin-left:auto;

Check the answer below:

@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Quicksand:300);

#bannercontent{


}



#bannercontent {
  font-family: 'Quicksand:300';
  font-size: 25px;
 
 
}
.banner {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  background-color: grey;
  width: 560px;
  height: 40px;
  vertical-align: middle;
  
   /* the follwoing lines */
    margin-right:auto;
  margin-left:auto;
}
.links {
  text-decoration: none;
}
.links:hover {
  color: white;
}
.bannerlinks {
  display: inline;
  margin-right: 20px;
  border: 12px;
  border-color: black;
  background-position: 50% 50%;
}

<div id="bannercontent">
  <ul class="banner">
    <li class="bannerlinks"><a class="links" href="#">What We Do</a></li>
    <li class="bannerlinks"><a class="links" href="#">Pricing</a></li>
    <li class="bannerlinks"><a class="links" href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
    <li class="bannerlinks"><a class="links" href="#">Wholesale</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

Answer 4

You can simply give the .banner element margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;

.banner {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}