Centering the header menu for perfect alignment

I'm encountering an issue with trying to centrally align the entire menu container, highlighted in yellow, as shown in this screenshot.

Despite using "margin: auto", I cannot seem to get the menu container to align in the center. It continues to float towards the left.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide.

Please refer to the complete markup and CSS code below:

body {
  margin: 0px;
}

.header-container {
  width: 100%;
  background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #008686, #024848);
}

.brand-logo {
  height: 60px;
  margin-left: 2%;
  margin-right: 3%;
  padding-top: 15px;
  padding-bottom: 15px;
}

.menu-container {
  width: fit-content;
  border: 3px solid yellow;
  margin: auto;
}
 
... (additional CSS code)

  
</header>

htmlcss

Answer №1

Updated Solution

If you want to center the menu within the entire row, regardless of the logo's width, you can achieve this by using absolute positioning with the .menu-container as a relative container.

.header-container {
  …
  position: relative;
}

.menu-container {
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, 50%);
}

Answer №2

@Andy, I made some adjustments to the code you provided and it worked perfectly. Here are the changes:

.header-container{
    width: 100%;
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #008686, #024848);
    position: relative;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

.brand-logo{
    height: 60px;
    margin-left: 20px;
    padding-top: 15px;
    padding-bottom: 15px;
}

.menu-container{
    width: fit-content;
    border: 3px solid yellow;
    position: absolute;
    top: 20%;
    left: 50%;
    transform: translate(-50%, 0);
}

Thank you so much for your guidance and inspiration. Your idea was exactly what I needed :)

However, I encountered a small issue when hovering over a menu item. The hovered item stays in place while the others move down by 10px. I want the hovered item to move upwards instead.

Here is my updated code:

.header-container{
    width: 100%;
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, #008686, #024848);
    position: relative;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

.brand-logo{
    height: 60px;
    margin-left: 20px;
    padding-top: 15px;
    padding-bottom: 15px;
}

.menu-container{
    width: fit-content;
    border: 3px solid yellow;
    position: absolute;
    top: 20%;
    left: 50%;
    transform: translate(-50%, 0);
}

.brand-logo, .menu-container{
    display: inline-block;                                           
    vertical-align: middle; 
}

.menu-item{
    padding: 5px 0px;
    margin-left: 30px;

}

.menu-item:hover{
    border-bottom: 3px solid #F8F143;
    border-radius: 2px;
    padding-bottom: 10px;      
    transition: 0.1s;
}

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