Align a div to center

Question

I want to float a div to center. Is it possible? text-align: center is not working in IE.

Answer 1

The usual technique for this is margin:auto

However, old IE doesn't grok this so one usually adds text-align: center to an outer containing element. You wouldn't think that would work but the same IE's that ignore auto also incorrectly apply the text align center to block level inner elements so things work out.

And this doesn't actually do a real float.