How do I horizontally center a span element inside a div

Issue

I am trying to center the two links 'view website' and 'view project' inside the surrounding div. Can someone point out what I need to do to make this work?

JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/F6R9C/

HTML

<div>
  <span>
    <a href="#" target="_blank">Visit website</a>
    <a href="#">View project</a>
  </span>
</div>

CSS

div { background:red;overflow:hidden }

span a {
    background:#222;
    color:#fff;
    display:block;
    float:left;
    margin:10px 10px 0 0;
    padding:5px 10px
}

Solution

One option is to give the <a> a display of inline-block and then apply text-align: center; on the containing block (remove the float as well):

div { 
    background: red;
    overflow: hidden; 
    text-align: center;
}

span a {
    background: #222;
    color: #fff;
    display: inline-block;
    /* float:left;  remove */
    margin: 10px 10px 0 0;
    padding: 5px 10px
}

http://jsfiddle.net/Adrift/cePe3/

Answered By - Adrift