Centering a Logo on a Menu Bar

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1. Could you post the code for centering the logo?

2. Maybe something like min-width: 1000px

Can you, per forum rules, just simply provide a link to your site? I want to help, and will, but decided not to, to not have to figure out what all those link lead to…a clear question, the link, please.

Thank you for responding.

min-width worked! Thank you! I wonder why just plain width didn’t work. It had only max-width. Adding min-width with same value fixed the width. Just running plain width did not.

As for the centering, I will try to post the code and explain it.

Started with an empty TwentyTwelve child theme.
Added a div for the custom logo, above the menu, in the templates used for each page:

<div class="customLogo"><img src="pix/logo.png" border="0"></div>
<nav id="site-navigation" class="main-navigation" role="navigation">
	<h3 class="menu-toggle"><?php _e( 'Menu', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></h3>
	<a class="assistive-text" href="#content" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Skip to content', 'twentytwelve' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Skip to content', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></a>
	<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary', 'menu_class' => 'nav-menu' ) ); ?>
</nav><!-- #site-navigation -->

Then, to pull the menu up in line with the logo, there is a big negative top margin on the nav bar. Without the negative top margine, the menu bar is underneath the logo. Logo class is text-align:center.

.catdog .main-navigation 	{
	margin-top: -98px;
	text-align: center;

}
.customLogo	{
	margin:0 auto;
	width:200px;
	text-align:center;
	margin-top:-8px;
}

The make room in the menu bar for the logo, so it would not overlap menu items, the margins on the menu items are hard-coded, to make space in the middle where the logo sits.

.main-navigation li	{
	margin:0;
	margin-left:80px;
}

li.page-item-145  {
	margin-left:60px;
	margin-right:0px;
}

li.page-item-80  {
	margin-left:60px;
	margin-right:0px;
}

li.page-item-82  {
	margin-left:222px;
	margin-right:0px;
}

li.page-item-86  {
	margin-left:40px;
	margin-right:0px;
}

li.page-item-194  {
	margin-left:40px;
	margin-right:0px;
}

li.page-item-84  {
	margin-left:40px;
	margin-right:0px;
}

Thanks for taking a look at this. It means a lot that people do that here.

It’s next to impossible to help with CSS without seeing the site live.

WPYogi,

Here is a link to the site.

Thank you.

Looks okay in all those browsers on a full size screen for me – but you have major problems on a smaller screen – twentytwelve is coded mobile-first so CSS for larger screens needs to use media queries. Look at the style.css file starting on about line 1350 for how that’s done in the parent theme.

You also have some mark-up errors…

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdansdemos.info%2Fprelaunch%2FWorldClothingCorp%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Thank you WPYogi. I fixed the markup errors.

On a fullsize screen, in Safari and Chrome on my Mac, the logo is a few pixels too low, creating misalignment with the nav bar. Here is a screenshot, showing the logo too low in the nav bar in Safari.

Any ideas on how to fix that?

I’m seeing the issue on Firefox, IE, Chrome, and Safari. It looks like it can be fixed using:

.catdog .main-navigation {
margin-bottom: 24px;
margin-bottom: 1.714285714rem;
margin-top: -96px;
text-align: center;
background-color: #003594;
border-top: 5px solid #fddc0d;
border-bottom: 2px solid #003DAD;
}

graphical force, thank you for checking this out and helping me troubleshoot this. I appreciate this a lot.

When I made that change, the issue is fixed for me in Chrome and Safari, but now, in Firefox on my Mac, the logo is out of alignment by 2 pixels.

I am wondering if I am going about this the right way. I am wondering if I might need to start over with a different parent theme.

I’m not seeing any issues on any browser except for firefox (I’m on a windows machine). On firefox it seems that the image does not quite match. But I suspect it is something to do with the font-size here:

.main-navigation li {
    margin-top: 1.71429rem;
    font-size: 0.854rem;
    line-height: 1.42857;
}

Thank you, graphical_force. I will tinker with the font size.

If you were responsible for implementing this design, would you go about it the way I have? Is there a better approach?

Hi, I’m not sure if this will help you but i would suggest surrounding the entire navigation (including the image) inside a div. Then, centering the image using the absolute technique.

.customLogo img {
	position: absolute;
        width:200px;
        top: 50%;
        margin-top: -100px;
        height:200px; /* Assuming that the height of the image is the same as width */
        left: 50%;
        margin-left: -100px;
        z-index: 4;
}

You should take the text-align out because you are only working with an image.
If the image is still mis-aligned, i would tinker with the margin-left and margin-right to set the image in place.

Hope this works for you!

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