Progressive enhancement example: Language Selection

It's easy to get lost in the Internet while looking for information. It's one of its greatest points: There are thousands of millions of websites out there. Information is the key purpose of the net and nobody can deny it.

But, as in many other cases, quantity does not equal quality. Poor designed websites, too bloated, with many inlined styles or little semantics (if none), are begging for trouble: Their information have lost accessibility.

Clearing floats with no clearfix

Oh, floats. Every web designer have worked with them. Floats let you rearrange the flow of elements. They're powerful, they're useful, they're... painly buggy on old browsers, I know. But they're one of the CSS2 most used properties, so they deserve some respect.

Let's make some fun with floats. We will design a simple menu from nothing more than pure HTML tags and some CSS magic.