Having the hardest time centering navigation text

Apologies for joining the conversation a bit late—I see that the discussion on centering elements in CSS has been quite thorough. While many solutions have been shared, I thought it might be helpful to provide some additional resources that delve into this topic:

• MDN Web Docs: Their Center an element guide offers comprehensive explanations on various centering techniques using modern CSS layouts.
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Layout_cookbook/Center_an_element
• Stack Overflow: This discussion thread provides a range of community-driven solutions for centering elements both horizontally and vertically.
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19461521/how-to-center-an-element-horizontally-and-vertically
• GeeksforGeeks: While the page does present CSS techniques, it also touches on some dynamic JavaScript-based approaches that can be useful when styling needs to respond to runtime conditions or when working outside of CSS-controlled environments. Worth a look for those exploring more programmatic solutions: How to center an element horizontally and vertically.
  https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-center-an-element-horizontally-and-vertically/

I hope these resources add value to the ongoing discussion!

Well there are a few things in play with your navigation. What you have setup are a list of items, with a float attribute, with a margin-right padding and text-align to center. Which is showing the result you are getting. The container of each item will be equal to the size of that text unless otherwise stated, and because of this, aligning the text to center wouldn't actually change the overall appearance. In comparison, if you had a fixed size of the <li> elements then text within those elements would wrap. And you also have that image floated next to the navigation so the navigation is restricted to the width of the container it is inside.

Would you be able to show via an image how you are envisioning the text to be centered in the layout?