Horizontal Centered Menu in CSS?

Question

I want to make a horizontal centered menu. I have tried using things like text align center and margin auto but can\'t get them to work. I do not want to use a table.

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Answer 1

Demo

.container{
    background:#ffffd;
    width: 100%;
    text-align:center;
}
li{
    display: inline-block;
}