Busy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:34:37 +0000

Are you doing something like this:

item 1
item 2
item 3

If so then the list is doing as it should, it is being centered, but you want the bullets in the center of the page not the contents. So you have two choices, use a table with 2 cells (td's) and give one a fixed width of 50% and place list in second cell. This will put the lists bullets half way on the page. NOTE the content wont wrap around the page, the bullets are the edge.
The other way is to use CSS and fix the margin of the list elements (li's), as Megan mentioned above. You can try 50% but am not sure if it will work the same on all browsers. The text will wrap again but you wont be able to have anything beside it unless you float it there.

DaveyBoy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:27:41 +0000

if you're using tables, you could centre a 1-column table set to about 20% width or so and create the list in there, this would of leave the bullets left aligned in the centre of your screen.

Renegade — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:07:54 +0000

Megan wrote: What is NVU???

http://www.nvu.com/

A branch project from the mozilla suit

highbids — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:01:20 +0000

Hi,

I'm going to use the list on the left side for now.

When I center one list and start to type text the bullets do not stay in the center.

I am going to have list that are not all the same some short some long with text.

The bullets when centered in the middle slide over to the left when I have long text.

They just don't stay in the center their moving, they should stay in the center no matter what length of text.

My site is not up yet, so I have no link to post and show you sorry.

Gary

Megan — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:47:39 +0000

So, what you want to do is align the whole list in the center, not the individual list items, is that right? Could you provide a link to what you have already? That would help us to see what you are trying to do.

You will still want to use a list like Greg and Davey showed you. To move the bullets closer or to center the list you will need to use some CSS. It will look something like this:

ul {margin: auto;}
li {padding-left: 10px;}

I'm not sure if it's the margin or padding you'll want to change here to move it closer. Someone else can correct me on that, and you can fiddle with that 10px to find what the right distance is. You will probably want to put a width on the UL too.

What is NVU???

highbids — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:22:29 +0000

The bullets are fine if I keep them on the left side but when I try and center them with NVU the bullets dont stay centered they move left when I have a lot of text.

Can you send me something like above that will keep the bullets in the center
when I have to make a bullet list in the center of the page.

Gary

DaveyBoy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:58:22 +0000

Ah you DO need to close em then Wasn't sure.

Greg K — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:49:41 +0000

More correct is:

<ul>
  <li>item 1</li>
  <li>item 2</li>
  <li>item 3</li>
</ul>

-Greg

DaveyBoy — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:28:45 +0000

the code is

text
text
text

Not sure if you need to close the

tag though.