Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 11/04/07 00:55

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed MangroveRoot <zcukpkn02
@sneakemail.com> writing in news:9k8Xi.417$It.197@trndny06:

>> Of course you can't centre a float
>
> Astounding.
>
> > so I hope that's not your next question.
>
> Actually, it is. I can do that with the much-deprecated tables,
> why can't I do this with the much-vaunted CSS?

You can't center a float because it would not be a float. A float takes
more and own item and _floats_ it next to another. Center takes one thing
and centers it. Now, you could put the floats that you wanted to center in
a container, and center _that_.

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