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How do you get HTML5 <nav> to center?

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Dawn1
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nav { width:700px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; } /* This centering only works in Google Chrome */

nav { width:700px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; } /* This centering only works in Google Chrome */

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cor-el
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Is <nav> a block or an inline element?

See http://31o5.com/2010/04/18/wordpress-theme-in-html5/

Try nav { width:700px; text-align: center; }

See also http://dorward.me.uk/www/centre/

Modified by cor-el

Dawn1
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nav { display:block; width:700px; margin-left:auto;

margin-right:auto; }

Yes! Adding display:block; centered it in Firefox. :)