How do I justify a horizontal list?

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I have a horizontal navbar like the following:

<ul id = "Navigation">
    <li><a href = "About.html">About</a></li>
    <li><a href = "Contact.html">Contact</a></li>
    <!-- ... -->
</ul>

I use CSS to remove the bullet points and make it horizontal.

#Navigation li
{
    list-style-type: none;
    display: inline;
}

I'm trying to justify the text so each link is spread out evenly to fill up the entirety of the ul's space. I tried adding text: justify to both the li and ul selectors, but they're still left-aligned.

#Navigation
{
    text-align: justify;
}

#Navigation li
{
    list-style-type: none;
    display: inline;
    text-align: justify;
}

This is strange, because if I use text-align: right, it behaves as expected.

How do I spread out the links evenly?

justify html-lists css html
10 Answers

This blog has a satisfyingly robust solution. It needs some slight changes to accommodate a ul/li navigation, though:

#Navigation {
    width: 100%;
    padding: 0;
    text-align: justify;
    font-size: 0;
    font-size: 12px\9; /* IE 6-9 */
}
#Navigation>li {
    font-size: 12px;
    text-align: center;
    display: inline-block;
    zoom: 1;
    *display: inline; /* IE only */
}
#Navigation:after {
    content:"";
    width: 100%;
    display: inline-block;
    zoom: 1;
    *display: inline;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/mblase75/9vNBs/

user_9010480

Using CSS Flexboxes

#Navigation {
  width: 100%;
  padding: 0;
  margin: .5rem 0;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: row;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: space-between;
  list-style-type: none;
  color: #ffffff;
}
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