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How to Have Isolated Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Stylesheets

Posted on December 09, 2007 09:54:19 AM --- 609 Views --- 0 Comments

In its infinite wisdom, Microsoft decided when developing Internet Explorer that the idea of following standards was out of the question. It never occurred to them that one - not everyone uses their browser, and two - that by making their own standards, they would be giving webmasters years worth of frustration. And in such tradition, I present to you, fellow frustrated webmasters, a snippet of code that will allow you to make IE-read-only cascading style sheets.

<!-- Will only be read by IE 7-->
<!--[if IE 7]>
<link href="/stylesheets/ie7_css.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

<!-- Will only be read by IE 6-->
<!--[if IE 6]>
<link href="/stylesheets/ie6_css.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

<!-- Will be read by IE 5.5 and below ('lte' meaning less than or equal to)-->
<!--[if lte IE 5.5000]>
<link href="/stylesheets/ie5_css.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

The above code should be placed inside the <HEAD> tag of your site's code. You'll have to modify the stylesheets' file paths to suite your needs.

For more information visit Microsoft's developer site.

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