Comments on: Weekly CSS Trick: The IE underscore hack

By: Kalyan Gopavarapu

Kalyan Gopavarapu — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:48:33 +0000

Underscore hack will effect only IE6 not IE7.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:42:52 +0000

You really should not use this hack (use hacks only as a last resort), as we'll never know if a future browser will also parse rules hidden by the hack. Moreover, as someone states here (in a comment), "if a hack becomes popular and is in widespread use, it may actually hinder the creation of new browsers and/or CSS specs. If the W3C wanted to include a special 'underscore syntax' for one reason or another, it probably can't because it would conflict with a popular hack and wreak havoc to many old pages in new browsers that try to follow the new spec. That's more or less how we ended up with the Quirksmode mess." In short, use conditional comments to tackle IE6/7/8.

By: Earl

Earl — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:22:02 +0000

The underscore hack won’t work for me. Have no clue why, I think it’s because I’m using a drop down menu and requires an html code above the css.

By: Ahemd

Ahemd — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:40:25 +0000

Very nice hack.
Keep on good working

By: flash tekkie

flash tekkie — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:52:29 +0000

This is another non-standard CSS hack available to IE developers. The thing is, these hacks are getting closer to the end of their existence as for the start Microsoft announced ending expressions in Style Sheet stack on Thursday earlier this week. A very nice move towards the standard-compliant browser.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:40:08 +0000

I just want to say that your my daily hero. I was trying all sorts of code to try to set up an IE7 specific code and this is the only one that actually worked. I just wish I had found this 4 hours ago…

Thanks for sharing that Dustin.

By: Dwayne Charrington

Dwayne Charrington — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:05:35 +0000

I swear by this hack. It’s fast, simple, and easy to use. If you’re going to be doing extensive IE hacking, I would recommend using a condition if statement instead, otherwise you’ll have a tonne of redundant code that will mess up your perfect, valid css document when you run it through the W3C validator.

By: robbiemac

robbiemac — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:19:49 +0000

Very cool. Simple and useful. Thanks for sharing.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:15:22 +0000

Simple and to the point, I was actually searching for the trick to getcontent to wrap in a pinch.. the trick on the bottom paragraph.