Comments on: CSS Trick: Target only IE with an if statement

By: The Importance of Web Standards | DevWebPro

The Importance of Web Standards | DevWebPro — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:52:18 +0000

[...] comes to Internet Explorer though, you have to make exceptions some of the time. There are ways to target Internet Explorer using an if statement that can help you change some CSS to get your site to work right in different versions of [...]

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Alva — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:01:53 +0000

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By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:28:53 +0000

ha ha … random that i would google this info and see a link to your site.

What about if not IE – well of to search to copy/paste that.

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By: Advnaced Scripting

Advnaced Scripting — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:53:17 +0000

This was a GREAT help, thank you…

You can also (essentially) do the “IF IE6 or IE5″ check in your CSS directly by using the “!important” declaration. EG:

.myDiv {
background-image:url(“../images/bg.png”) !important;
background-image:none;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
filter:none !important;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader
(src=”../images/bg.png”,sizingMethod=”scale”);
}

In this instance, FF, O9, Safari and IE7 (all of which render PNGs correctly) use the statements that have been declared “!important”, while IE5 and IE6 use the newer declarations of the same elements (ie: “background-image:none” and “filter:progid:DXIma…”

I have just finished a site (see the link) that implements this method A LOT and it works beautifully.

By: Brigitte

Brigitte — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:03:31 +0000

Thanks for these clear informations. I have been tearing my hair out because of IE6; you have saved my sanity. I will be regularly checking your site for tips.

By: Clark Web Designs

Clark Web Designs — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:56:14 +0000

You can target very specific versions of IE

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

By: Gurpreet

Gurpreet — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:57:20 +0000

great content thanx

By: Gloria Perri

Gloria Perri — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:51:31 +0000

I forgot to mention that I put a different link into the Website slot in the form above…the site I now have listed is the exercise file from the CSS Web Site Design book I’m working with, and I uploaded the files into one of my sites so you can see my dilemma. The ecommerce site is not listed…it is http://www.phillymusclecars.com . I haven’t really started working on it yet because I’m so hung up trying to get the Internet Explorer nav bar to work using CSS…

By: Gloria Perri

Gloria Perri — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:48:55 +0000

Hi! I’m trying to bring all sites I’ve built since 1996 to present into compliance with XHTML. The site listed above is a new one and it’ll be an ecommerce site as well, therefore, I’m cramming the CSS books and have one glitch which I’ve been trying to ignore until now, because I need to get the site up and running. I can’t get the nav bar to show up in IE7 unless I type it in sideways to create a horizontal nav bar.
In Firefox I can type an unordered list and tweak the CSS and it shows beautifully in the nav bar background. Nada for IE7. If I keep the links that I typed in sideways, then the firefox page has two nav bars, one with the background and one without. I’ve included some if statements but nothing is happening to resolve the issue. I guess the question is…how do I get IE7 to show the nav bar the way it looks in Firefox? Help…I’m befuddled and with the holiday…have to cook and I’m so into getting this fixed that I can’t think about anything else.

Thanks so much for any help you can give me.