 when they were writing the specifications for css why didnt they allow things to be floated center i was looking through an old site at work this week that was developed long before me and i saw someone tried to do this float center so that got me thinking why would they include the specification to float left and right but not center imagine the posibilities the following are just a couple of simple examples of what could be possible they are not meant to be used in a production environment float an image between two columns in this example i just floated the image to the right and gave it a 100px right margin half the width of the image then i just added an empty div to the right hand column floated it left and gave it a height and width float an image in the middle of one column this one is really hacky i absolutely positioned the image chose a monospaced font and then added non breaking spaces so that the image was no longer covering the text i think being able to float something in the center could really make pages more interesting i would be curious to know if there was any specific explanation for why you cannot float to the center 