Thanks to Vanessa Morgan who had recently visited this blog and wanted to know how to center the horizontal page tabs below the blog's header. That spurred me to google for answers after several hours of failed attempts to do it on my own.
I'm terribly happy to have learned much from GreenLava, the guru at Blogger Sentral who's most helpful and generous in sharing his knowledge and expertise. THANK YOU!
By default, the Pagelist or Pages gadget is left-aligned in Blogger blogs but can be easily aligned to the center if you so desire.
Learn how to center the Pages or PageList gadget,
that's located below the blog's header, by following these simple steps:
- Sign in to your Blogger account. At Dashboard, click Design | Template Designer.
- Go to Advanced | Add CSS tab. Add the following CSS code snippet in the field box provided on the right:
.PageList {text-align:center !important;}
.PageList li {display:inline !important; float:none !important;}
- The alignment of the pagelist to the center will be reflected instantly in the live preview below. If you're satisfied with the changes, just click the orange button, Apply to Blog, to save changes.
- Finally, click the Back to Blogger button to quit the Blogger Template Designer and return to the Page Elements page. That's all to it! Easy, right?
Enjoy!
Keep learning~~keep smiling~~keep sharing!!

thanks for this jacq! applied it on my blog already :)
ReplyDeleteYou're most welcome, Janie! Nice to know you liked it!
ReplyDeleteThank you for this, I have wasted hours playing with the code, googling and playing with the CSS, and only your instructions have worked for me. You've made my day!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure in sharing, Lizzy Lips! Thanks for your positive feedback and great to know I've made you happy today. I had wasted precious hours too like you before stumbling on GreenLava's tutorial on this subject. :)
ReplyDeleteJust found your blog and omg I love it! I am a newbie and for the life of me, couldn't simply center my pages gadget! I did it! Thank you! Now off to search your site on customizing my post footer! I can't figure out how to have "leave a comment" on the main pages post!
ReplyDeleteYou're most welcome, Jessica! Great to know you're delighted.
ReplyDeleteClever girl, you've solve the comment mystery, I see! Hehe, I haven't learnt how to do that yet. ;)
I tried this twice and couldn't get it to work...nothing changed. Any advice? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteJennifer, I saw that all's well at your blog now re centering your Pagelist gadget. That's great.
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ReplyDeleteThis didn't work on my computer and idk what to do! Help?!
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Vishhal : Great to know... thank you!
ReplyDeleteShelby : Congrats! You've achieved it as seen in your blog!!
Did you use a special kind of blogger template for this?
ReplyDeleteI know I'm going to sound like a broken-record. but I can't get it to work. Or maybe it "kicks in" after awhile, even if it doesn't immediately?
What do you think could be the problem?
I was SO glad when I found this after searching for hours and trying to figure out how to edit HTML!
I see you've got it working alright, Eva! Great!
DeleteJacqui,i can't get it right, i already copy from here and pasted on my CSS window, but there's no experimental window showing so i click Apply to Blog, and nothing happened. I don't know what to do next. thanks.
ReplyDeleteOh Jacqui, i closed the site, then opened my site again and repeat the process, and yes it worked after a sometime. Thank you so much. Yours are easy to follow instructions really designed for computer lingo naive people, hahaha! I am happy i did something lovely today.
ReplyDeleteNow, what is left for me to do is how to put those reply links in the comments, just like yours. I am excited again.
Congrats, you did it... I'm happy for you too, Andrea! Frankly, I try to present my tutorials as simple as possible with illustrations, hoping that it's always a success for whoever who tries it. :)
DeleteI deduced that you'd like to have the threaded comments, right? If so, just enable the feature at your blog by going to Settings > Posts and comments, then scroll down to Comment Location and select Embedded, followed by Save Settings.
Dear Jacqueline, thank you for this tip!
ReplyDeleteI've been searching all over this and you 'saved' my blog from looking weird!
Thank you so so so so much!!<333
You're most welcome, Vanessa! Great to know you're happy!
DeleteTried doing this to my blog but didn't work. I used an eblogger template.
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Dear Jacqueline,
ReplyDeletethis didn't work on my blog. i've repeated several times and nothing change. is there another way to center align pagelist?? need help :)
Sorry, Nadia... whatever I know is already shared in the above tutorial.
Deletethnx!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure in sharing, Michael!
ReplyDeleteThank you soooo much!! I was looking for this for so long!! ;)
ReplyDeleteGreat to know your search is over and I've put a smile on your face, Marisa!
DeleteThank u:) It works
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, Shylu! Nice to know it worked for you.
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