HTML List element : Sharing the parent width into equal parts

Question

I have a parent

and couple of
1. items in that.

   
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Answer 1

As Renesis pointed out, I think table cells is the only option, unless you're scripting it. Although you can use table-cell in CSS.

#menu {display: table-row;}
#menu li {display: table-cell;}

..which will simulate the behaviour. Note that in IE it will, as usual, cause problems in the lower versions.