There have been many methods of centering unordered lists of unknown width, but this is the one I have found to be most robust.

Back to basics to show how to use the latest techniques to produce a flyout menu with the widths of the sub levels automatically sized to fit the longest text.

A previous professional droplist menu with the additional feature of a dropline heading with droplists giving extra lists within the same dropdown.

A droplist menu using top level blocks containing images with text and links.

A CSS only version of the popular javascript dynamic menu.

A similar menu to the previous image version, but this time using expanding text on mouseover.

Another version of the CSS only fisheye menu, this time with expanding images and associated text.

Adding the use of png images for IE6 and giving a smoother zoom animation

An experimental menu to explore the possibility of having sliding images on hover

A vertical menu with a 2 tier flyout and the last tier can contain any information you like including images, text and further links.

A definition list menu using the new menu system to simplify the styling

Using the latest techniques for no hacks menus this is a vertical slide version with all the features of the dropdown menu including tabbing, and the sub list stays open when clicking the top level.

Using the latest techniques for no hacks menus this is a vertical flyout version with all the features of the slide menu including tabbing, and the sub list stays open when clicking the top level.

A fly left version of the previous menu, again with no hacks, table, conditional comments or javascript.

A horizontal pullup menu to continue with this series, again with no hacks, table, conditional comments or javascript.

For those who prefer nested unordered lists for their menus, again with no hacks, table, conditional comments or javascript.

A click gallery in which the large image is permanently on screen until another image is chosen EVEN when refreshing the page.

Added a click to open and also a reclick to close feature.

A dropdown menu with top level centered and sub menus dynamic widths to fit the longest text, and all in shades of grey and black.

A vertical sliding menu with current page styling and the ability to override the current page style when hovering other items.

A CSS dropdown menu using an image map for the top level items with a rollover state, using just two images.

A dropdown menu with current page styling and the ability to override the current page style when hovering other items.

A method of replacing menu link text with rollover png images that works in IE6 and also degrades well when images are of and/or CSS is off.

A simple method of replacing all text with images in a single level dropdown menu with rollover.

A more complex method of replacing all text with images in a single level dropdown menu using individual png images.

A dropdown menu using top level png images with the submenu used for image information.

A simple multi-level flyout menu with fixed widths and multi-line text.

A dropdown version of the previous multi-line flyout menu

A simple anywidth CSS flyout menu with an easy method of having a breadcrumb trail.

Using the no hacks dropdown system and a little extra styling to produce a dropdown button menu with highlight on hover.

A vertical flyout menu with multi column lists ans opacity.

The no hacks, no javascript, no tables and no conditional comments dropdown/flyout menu restyled to work correctly in all browsers, with tabbing.

The no hacks, no javascript, no tables and no conditional comments flyout menu with tabbing.

The no hacks, no javascript, no tables and no conditional comments dropdown/flyout menu with png opacity background images.

Using the new multi-level menu system this has a better indication of the path taken through the menu structure.

A multi-level drop/fly menu using the new system and mouse clicks instead of hovers.

A multi-level drop/fly menu using the new system with manually adjusted widths for top and sub levels.

The previous menu with the ability to adjust the widths of all levels.

The previous menu with the ability to adjust the widths of all levels and center each level.

A skeleton flyout menu with the path taken through the menu highlighted..

The multi level dropdown/flyout menu with the path through the menu highlighted.

A small restyle to make this menu system more robust and have an easy menu trail style.

A dropline menu using a totally NEW method that requires NO hacks and works in all browsers. Also allows tabbing.

Using the same NEW method as the previous menu to have the sub line appear above the top level links.

Using the latest no hack system to have top level images and dropdown boxes cntaing images and text

Using the same NEW method as the previous menu to have the sub line appear above the top level links. This one has simpler styling.

Using CSS3 styles to produce an animated slide down/up menu identical to javascript versions.

Using CSS3 styles to produce an animated fade-in menu with curverd corners, drop shadows and gradient fills.

Using CSS3 'general sibling' selector problems when using :hover in Safari and Chrome

Using Microsoft filter to produce a dropdown menu with drop shadows and gradient fill overlays