How do you align a block item to the right edge of its parent (with CSS)?

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Published on 2010-03-24T05:38:46Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 5:43 UTC
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I am aware that you can center a block item by setting the left and right margin to auto.

However, is it possible to align it to the right edge? And how would this be done?

Edit: without using float: right (because it doesn't seem to work, at least not with <ul>'s)

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