Horizontal CSS Navigation

Hey!
Ok... moving forward in my education of CSS slowly.....

Can someone point me to a tutorial on creating a horizontal navigation with CSS.
The w3school's site doesn't seem to have info on navigations. The sticky on the CSS forum is too complex with sub menus.

I want four boxes on a horizontal line with text links inside. Simple stuff I know, but remember I'm in Kindergarten.
_______________________________
BOX BOX BOX BOX
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I also want to center the four links in the center of the page. Obviously floating isn't what I want since that's only left and right... I'm so confused!


Thanks in advance!



Lchad

ok.. I'm getting somewhere.

Here's the link to the site so you can see the problem with my navigation:
http://www.vinylfontsandphrases.com/

As you can see it's all scrunched up on the left.

Here's my html

<div class="nav" id="navigation">
<ul class="nav">
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Quotes & Sayings</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Colors & Fonts</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Shipping & Policies</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

Here's the CSS:

ul.nav {
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
height: 0px;
width: 0px;
margin-top: 15px;
padding-top:6px;
padding-bottom:5px;
}

ul.nav li {
display:inline;
}
ul.nav a{
border:1px dashed;
padding:5px 15px;
text-decoration:none;
color: #DE079F;
font: lighter small Tahoma;
text-transform: uppercase;
background: #FFFFFF url(polkadot_pink.jpg);

}

Anyone have an idea what I'm missing?

lchad

Holy ..... #$@&... I got it!!

text-align: center;

Thanks Ryan, I had still missed that but I think because my container or wrapper was centered, it still worked!

I can't say I'm comfortable with CSS yet but it's coming!
Have you read the CSS- The Missing Manual.

I have it and it's been helpful. For some reason, I prefer a book to flip through than searching the net.

No, I've never read anything about CSS. I just sort of learned it from practice and play. JavaScript, however, was a different story. If you're interested in it, the JavaScript Bible is a wonderful thing.

Make that two votes for the JavaScript Bible or actually, the Wiley "Bible" series since I have the PHP Bible too.

Bah sorry, didn't mean to hijack the thread.

I have the PHP Bible, too! I gave up on reading it, though. I found the PHP site to be more useful. Anyway, text-align: center; will move a horizontal navigation to the middle if you're not using floats.