The css you quoted can be reduced to

without losing the centering. But if you put in that missing ; it will also be centered, after you have deleted the other center class.

What you may see as not quite centered after these changes, may be that the text is left-aligned on each button. If you want to center the text, you go to menu-menu.css and look up this bit:

and change the 'left' to 'center'.

Re: Extending the blue background beyond the menu:

I created a class 'navbar' and applied it like this:


The css for the new class was added to my-menu.css:


The blue image has a black border on the right, so I cropped it and also reduced the size a bit. Attaching it here.

Have to add that I had saved the activebg.jpg on the desktop, where I also had the other files of yours, so of course, you'll have to set the correct path to it.

Added: Looking at it, I'd go for 93% width of that blue background stretching beyond the menu. Then it will be the same width as the page content. You could experiment with the left-margin of the logo in order to move it a wee bit to the right, in sync with the content, too.

Inger,

Thank you. We have the menu centered now but it still does not span across the page...seems like something may be missing?

Regards,

Bryon

Hi, Just re-read my previous post. You have forgotten to apply the navbar class to the html document, as shown in the first code box above.

Inger,

I think I made all the changes you outlined but it still does not span the page. Please take another look and let me know if I have missed something else.

Regards,

Bryon

Aha...

I see where I made a mistake. Instead of:

background: url('activebg.jpg');

I needed this background: url('../images/activebg.jpg');


Thank you Inger

Regards,

Bryon

It looks good now, Bryon. If I were you, I would let the blue background span 93%, not just 90%. If you lengthen it, it will be as wide as the contents below, and you would get a straight margin.

Looks good Bryon. You must be getting the hang of this stuff.

Thank you Inger and Eric.

This is very challenging, logical and fun but I would be really really lost without your help. The good news is that I feel like I am learning new tricks every day and that is fun.

Bryon

We also learn a lot just by helping others. We often have to stop and think, and that's good. A sign that we're still alive, I guess