Centering Items Within Navigation Bar

I've been trying to center the items within the navigation but no such luck. Every single solution turns my navigation bar from this: horizontal navigation bar to this: vertical na

Solution 1:

Just remove the float from the li and make the inline-block

li {    
/* float: left;   */display:inline-block;
}

The first rule of centering is..."Don't use floats"

ul {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  background-color: #333;
  text-align: center;
}
li {
  display: inline-block;
}
lia {
  display: block;
  color: white;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 10px10px;
  text-decoration: none;
}
lia:hover {
  background-color: #111;
}

<ul><li><aclass="active"href="#home">Home</a></li><li><ahref="#news">News</a></li><li><ahref="#contact">Contact</a></li><li><ahref="#about">About</a></li></ul>

Solution 2:

I removed your css on li tag with float and changed it to display and width:

li {
display: -webkit-inline-box;
width: 60px;

}

https://i.stack.imgur.com/LbYd4.png`

I hope this helped you @C. Lagos