How do I center my header list? (V2)

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I am trying to make a header with some decent css and something was wrong: When I tested this with my localhost (via XAMPP) the list isn't centered in the middle of my background, instead it is above.

How can I solve this problem?

Regards,
Andreas

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <header>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"href="header.css">
        <ul>
          <li><a href="">Home</a></li>
          <li><a href="">About</a></li>
          <li><a href="">Contact</a></li>
          <li><a href="">Agenda</a></li>
          <li><a href="">Menu</a></li>
        <p>  Cafe <strong> Welkom</strong></p> <br>
        </ul>
        
    
    </header>    
</html>

What I have tried:

CSS:

header
{
text-align: center;
list-style-position: outside;

}
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #333;
}

li {
float: left;

}

li a {
font-size: 15px;
display: block;
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;

}

li a:hover {
background-color: darkkhaki;
}
p
{
font-family: sans-serif;
color: lightgoldenrodyellow;
}

Posted 28-Sep-16 18:05pm

Andy Janssens

Updated 28-Sep-16 18:53pm

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jgakenhe · Answer 1 · 2016-09-28T18:53:00

I made a couple of changes. Firstly, I took out margins and padding from the top and also wrapped the header in a div called heading to get the 100% width affect and then center what was the li as a div; so it could be centered. Also, the p is moved into the li so it is part of the unordered list. To gain the nice font, I wrapped it in a span.

CSS

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
#header{width: 50%; margin-top: 0px;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;}

#heading{background: #333; width: 100%; height: 50px; margin-top: 0px;}

header
{
text-align: center;
list-style-position: outside;

}
ul  li{
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}

li {
float: left;

}

li a {
font-size: 15px;
/*display: block;*/
color: white;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;

}


li a:hover {
background-color: darkkhaki;
}
span
{
font-family: sans-serif;
color: lightgoldenrodyellow;
}