centering item in itemize/enumerate without centering bullet

Question

I'm trying to center/align right the content of bullets in an itemize nested in a p column of a longtable. I use the following code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[landscape, margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{longtable} % for 'longtable' environment
\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{p{0.1\linewidth} p{0.2\linewidth}  p{0.7\linewidth} }
  # & question & answer \
  \hline
  \endhead
  127 & what are your names?
  &
  \begin{itemize}
  \item
    {\centering blo\par}
  \item bla
  \item
    {\raggedleft blu\par}
  \end{itemize}
\end{longtable}
\end{document}

However, the resulting list also centers the bullet associated with the first item:

Is there anyway to prevent it from doing this without the use of a minipage environment?

Please provide an MWE (https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/228) (document class is important for example) and maybe a drawing or picture of the desired output to minimize the risk of a misunderstanding. — Dr. Manuel Kuehner, Apr 11 '21 at 23:39
Consider the following: Instead, when we need something centered with respect to a line in a list, we should use \linewidth: — A.Ellett, Apr 11 '21 at 23:51
@Dr.ManuelKuehner Thank you very much, I've updated my question accordingly. — Julian Sutherland, Apr 12 '21 at 00:00
@A.Ellett This doesn't quite work for me. I also want to avoid using the center environment as it adds spurious space and this seems to not work with \centering — Julian Sutherland, Apr 12 '21 at 00:11

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 12 '21 at 09:39

Here is a solution, using \parbox or \makebox depending on whether the item contents is multilined or not. I added a pair of vertical rules to visualise better, and set the bullet indent to 0:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[landscape, margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{longtable} % for 'longtable' environment
\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{p{0.1\linewidth} p{0.2\linewidth} | p{0.7\linewidth}| }
  # & question & answer \
  \hline
  \endhead
  127 & what are your names?
  &
  \begin{itemize}
  \item
    \parbox{\linewidth}{\centering blo}
  \item bla
  \item
   \makebox[\linewidth][r]{blu}
  \end{itemize}
\end{longtable}
\end{document}

centering item in itemize/enumerate without centering bullet

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