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Navigation bar not centering

Everything lines up correctly and looks good here:

http://rmdcra.org

For every other page on the site the navigation bar moves to the left and I can't find where or why. I am using a header file and the navigation bar is contained within the header.

I attached the header code and the CSS, let me know if you need to see anything else.

Thank you!

Header:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

	<head>
	<link type="text/css" href="includes/menu.css" rel="stylesheet" />
	<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="menu.js"></script>

	<STYLE type="text/css">body {background-image: url('images/bg1.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100%; text-align: center;}</STYLE>

	<title>RMDCRA</title>

	</head>

	<body>
	
	<img src="/images/Pan.jpg"/>

	<div id="menu">
		<ul class="menu">
			<li><a href="/index.php"><span>Home</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="/files/2009rules.pdf"><span>Rules</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="/Schedule.php"><span>Schedule</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="/Results.php"><span>Results</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="/Points.php"><span>Points</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="/Roster.php"><span>Roster</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/RMDCRA-Rocky-Mountain-Dwarf-Car-Racing-Association/210760217243?v=photos&ref=ts"><span>Pictures</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="/Links.php"><span>Links</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="http://rmdcra.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general"><span>Forum</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="http://rmdcra.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=classifieds"><span>Classifieds</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="/Tech.php"><span>Tech</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="/Contacts.php"><span>Contacts</span></a></li>
			<li class="last"><a href="/admin/index.php"><span>Login</span></a></li>
		</ul>
	</div>
<body>
---------------------------Menu.css---------------------------------


/* menu::base */
div#menu {
    height:55px;
    background:url(/includes/images/nav-bg.png) repeat-x;
    _background:url(/includes/images/nav-bg.gif) repeat-x;
	width: 930px;
	
}

div#menu ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;
}
div#menu ul.menu {
    padding-left: 7px;
}

div#menu li {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 9;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    display: block;
    float: left;
}
   
div#menu li:hover>ul {
    left: -2px;
}

div#menu li div {
    list-style: none;
    float: left;
    position: absolute;
    top: 50px;
    left: 0;
    width: 208px;
    z-index: 11;
    visibility: hidden;
    padding: 0 0 9px 7px;
    _padding: 0 0 9px 3px;
    background: url(/includes/images/submenu-bottom.png) no-repeat 7px bottom;
    _background-image: url(/includes/images/submenu-bottom.gif);
    margin: 0 0 0 -9px;
}

div#menu li:hover>div {
    visibility: visible;
}

div#menu li.current a {}

/* menu::level1 */
div#menu a {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 10;
    height: 55px;
    display: block;
    float: left;	
    padding: 0 9px 0 9px;
    line-height: 55px;
    text-decoration: none;
}
div#menu span {
    font: normal 12px 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
    padding-top: 18px;
    color: #787878;
    font-weight:bold;
    text-transform:uppercase;
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;		
}
div#menu ul a:hover span {
    color: #FFFFFF;
}

div#menu li { background: url(/includes/images/nav_separator.png) top left no-repeat; }
div#menu li.last span{
    background: url(/includes/images/nav_separator.png) top right no-repeat;
    padding: 18px 10px 16px 0;
}

/* menu::level2 */
div#menu ul ul li {
    background: url(/includes/images/nav_dropdown_sep.gif) left bottom repeat-x;
    padding: 4px 0;
    z-index: 9;	
}
div#menu ul ul {
    z-index: 12;	
    padding: 0;
    background: rgb(32,32,32) url(/includes/images/nav_dropdown_grad.png) right top no-repeat;
    margin-top:0px;
    margin-left:4px;
    margin-right:5px;
}
div#menu ul ul a {
  	width: 184px;
	  padding: 0px 7px 3px 8px;
    height: auto;
    float: none;
    display: block;
    background:none;
    margin-bottom: 2px;
    z-index: -1;
}
div#menu ul ul a span {
	  padding: 0 10px 0px 10px;
    line-height: 20px;
    color: #787878;
    font-weight:normal;
    text-transform: none;
    background:none;
}
div#menu ul ul a:hover {
    background: url(/includes/images/submenu-selected-bottom.gif) no-repeat 8px bottom;
}
div#menu ul ul a:hover span {
    background: url(/includes/images/submenu-selected-top.gif) no-repeat 0px 0px;
    color: #fff;
}

div#menu ul ul li.last { background: none; }
div#menu ul ul li {
    width: 100%;
}

/* menu::level3 */
div#menu ul ul div {
    width: 208px;
    margin: -50px 0 0 190px !important;
    height: auto;
    _padding: 0 0 9px 3px;
}
div#menu ul ul ul {
	_padding-right:1px;
}

/* lava lamp */
div#menu li.back {
}
div#menu li.back .left {
}

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Mark Brady

The problem will be in the CSS styling. Usually when this happens you will have a div floated to the left which over rides the <center> tag. Without going right through your code, look at your menu div (the container holding the menu items) and remove any reference you have to the 'left' property. Make sure there is no 'float:left' or left:20px or anything like that. Then it will jump back to the center if you have a <center> tag somewhere before the menu appears.

Hope this helps

Marco Gasi

@elvin66 add
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

using firebug and you'll see problem solved. :-)

Mark Brady

Try putting a <center> tag like this:

<body>
      <center>
      <img src="/images/Pan.jpg"/>

      <div id="menu">

Mark Brady

Ok fair enough! Well done

Marco Gasi

Why you should add a html tag to center layout when we are using css?

Marco Gasi

Ooops we are speaking one over the other ;-)

Patrick Martin

ASKER

Thank you very much:

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

Worked perfectly!