“We’ve been using floats for layout pretty much since we left tables behind. It’s a quirky solution that can often cause troubles, but if you know what you’re doing, it works. One interesting alternative to floats that people are turning to more and more lately is to set the display value of an element to ...

http://www.brunildo.org/test/index.html

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html

http://css-tricks.com/examples/ImageReplacement/

http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-folded-corner-effect/demo/