Pressrow – How to center top menu?

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  hotshott · Member · Dec 11, 2009 at 2:02 pm

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  Any idea how to get the top menu to center over the header? Messing around last night, we were able to get it to align to the right (which also flipped the order of the links). And we got it to center, but it stacked the links one on top of the other. I want them to be in a line like they are originally, but just centered left to right.

  Thanks
  Kris

  http://hendersonbromsteadart.wordpress.com/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Dec 11, 2009 at 2:33 pm

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  Kris:

  Play with blank spaces in your page titles. Don’t edit the permalink, jut the title.
  HOME JUST SAY HBA CLIENTS RECOGNITION FOR SALE CONTACT
  Like this:

      JUST SAY HBA
  or
      FOR SALE    

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  hotshott · Member · Dec 11, 2009 at 9:19 pm

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  Won’t adding spaces make it potentially look different in different browsers? I had played around with letter spacing and the padding earlier today. And if looked centered in FF, then it was still shifted left in Safari. And if it centered up in Safari, it dropped down to 2 lines in FF.

  Is it the “float” command that makes it impossible to center?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Dec 11, 2009 at 9:38 pm

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  Yes of course it will look different in various browsers, and most likely it will be different on screens with different resolutions.

  But you don’t have many choices with what you can do with titles.
  strong, em, and no-break spaces work. Oh and the trick to link an to a site.

  Perhaps with a CSS upgrade, it may be different? I have no experience with CSS, but if you want to try, you can do so for free:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/
  Don’t buy until you try—
  there is no official support for you in these forumns…

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Dec 11, 2009 at 9:40 pm

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  Oh, I didn’t know padding would work in titles!

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  hotshott · Member · Dec 11, 2009 at 10:08 pm

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  yeah, I got the upgrade. And with some trial and error have been able to figure out most of what I want to do. I just can’t seem to get the language right to get it to center.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Dec 11, 2009 at 10:25 pm

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  OK. Then perhaps start a new thread about how to use CSS to center your nav bar.

  As I said, I have no CSS experience. But there must be a way to have you header as a live link to your home page. As it is, search engines see no title for your blog. Try something with absolute positioning to cover the innate wordpress title.

  Look at my blog’s source code to see what I mean?