I have a CSS-created form that is great in all browsers, screen sizes, etc. except IE 8. It is not important enough to keep messing with it, and I want to just hide it for users of IE 8. Is there a simple CSS attribute I can add?
You could add a class to the html if ie 8 like :
<!--[if IE 8]><html class="ie8"><![endif]-->
and then style it based on that.
Using conditional comments you can simply add a line of CSS to hide whatever element you need out of the way. Something like this should work:
<!--[if IE 8]>
<style>
#id {
display:none;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
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Is it possible to use different css selector for IE(any version of ie) and chrome? Its a normal top property which appears differently in both browser and needs to explicitly adjusted according to the browser
You cannot do this in CSS alone. You need what are called "conditional comments" like the following:
<!--[if IE 8]>
<p>This is IE 8</p>
<![endif]-->
These are added to your HTML and can be used in many ways. Two primary ways that I have used them are:
To link to a wholly different CSS style sheet
To change the class on the <html> or some other parent tag and use CSS rules to select any children of it
I realize that second description may sound a bit complex but it's actually pretty simple so here's an example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<!--[if IE 8]>
<html lang="en-US" class="ie8">
<![endif]-->
<![if !IE]>
<html lang="en-US">
<![endif]>
...
<body>
<div class="someClass"></div>
</body>
...
Then, in your CSS, use a selector like: .ie8 .someClass
Welcome to the club! Anyways, although you can try to set browser specific css on elements, actually you cannot guarantee that it'll work exactly like you aimed. Because it depends on how those browsers handles these css classes, and there is nothing you can do about that. You may try to set different css classes for IE like this:
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<html class="ie">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if (!IE) | (IE 9)]><!-->
<html>
<!--<![endif]-->
Notice that these are actually comment lines, but ie reads these lines and set the user-defined css class "ie" to html element (you may notice that Chrome and Firefox ignores these statements). you can then use this css, for example;
html.ie div{
top: 0;
}
It's really annoying to deal with these cross-browser ie bs, I know. hope this helps
What you want to achieve?
If you want to compensate browsers all differences you can use for eg. modernizr
If you want to add special css file for IE you can use Conditional comments They look like this:
< !--[if IE 9]>
< link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" th:href="ie9.csss"/>
< ![endif]-->"
If you want to fix something in css selector you can use hack(HACK! means not recommended, avoid but if you really have to and you have gun next to your head etc...) which will make properties or css class understandable only for specific browser (google this there is to many of them) eg. http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-how-to-target-ie6-ie7-and-ie8-uniquely-with-4-characters--net-10575
And last option learn CSS and find where you made mistake because probably some element is diffrent size and that caused 1-2 px difference with position top
I am working on this site and in IE the nav menu spans 2 lines:
http://www.sandiegolawfirm.com/
I would like to either remove the space on the left of bankruptcy or reduce the font size by a point or two in IE. Allowing all the departments to fit on one nav menu line.
I am actively trying to fix this but would appreciate help with figuring out the best way to get this done.
Thanks - Raleigh
One way fix changes specific to use styles that are specific to IE. Depending on which version you're trying to fix for there are different rules you can use.
For example:
Target ALL VERSIONS of IE
<!--[if IE]>
#any rules you like
<![endif]-->
Target everything EXCEPT IE
<!--[if !IE]><!-->
#any rules you like
<!--<![endif]-->
Target IE 7 ONLY
<!--[if IE 7]>
#any rules you like
<![endif]-->
Target IE 6 ONLY
<!--[if IE 6]>
#any rules you like
<![endif]-->
There's a tutorial here: http://css-tricks.com/how-to-create-an-ie-only-stylesheet/
I think adding something like
ul li:first-of-type a{
margin-left:-20px;
}
to the IE styles could work
It looks like you're trying to use custom fonts and getting unpredictable results in IE since "Gotham" isn't available. You could try using a Google webfont or upload a webfont to your server to at least get similar font sizes.
I used special character '#' '_' and '\' for IE browser compatibility. But now my style sheet is fail in W3c validation because of using IE hack. Is there anyway for error less stylesheet with browser compatibility.
Now I am not able to remove these IE hack because of my HTML files are now in Java program development.
My hack are like this :
/* For IE8 */top:-15px;
/* For IE7 */#top:-10px;
/* For IE6 */_top:-1px;
Yeah, don't use invalid CSS hacks, they're super-fragile.
For the specific case of picking up IE, conditional comments are better. Most solutions put extra stylesheets in CCs, but if you don't want to do that you can do class-switching with CCs:
<!--[if IE 6]> <body class="ie6"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]> <body class="ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gte IE 8]><!--> <body> <!--<![endif]-->
and then do all your styling in one place based on the class:
#something { top:-15px; }
body.ie7 #something { top:-10px; }
body.ie6 #something { top:-1px; }
(This is assuming that IE8 is “all right” and should be served the same rules as other browsers, hence the ‘downlevel-revealed’ CC that allows everyone else to see the classless <body>.)
Used the particular html page in conditional statement.
<!--[if IE ]>
<link href="iecss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<![endif]-->
Your reference
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/conditionalcomments
Factor your adaptions for IE out into separate style sheets, and include them via conditional comments, e.g. for the IE8 style sheet:
<!--[if IE 8]
<link rel='stylesheet' href='ie8.css' />
<![endif]-->
I would say don't worry too much about validation.
It is helpful to use when trying to figure out when something is broken, but not the goal of any Web site.
Instead of hacks within your css, why not use conditional comments?
<!--[if lt IE 8]>
//styles here
<![endif]-->
You can either place individual styles in there or a link to a stylesheet.
Either way, only IE less than 8 sees it.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512(v=vs.85).aspx
There is also a solution without the conditional comments, which allows you to store all CSS rules in one file.
* html selector { /* rules for IE6 */ }
*:first-child+html selector { /* rules for IE7 */ }
For IE8, you shouldn't need any CSS hacks; it's a browser with very good CSS 2.1 support. If you, despite this fact, do need one, you may try setting a value with no hack and then rewrite it using some CSS3 selector that won't be recognized by IE8.
selector { /* rules for IE8 */ }
html:root selector { /* rules for IE9, Firefox, Chrome, etc. */ }
How could I select IE7 with pure (valid) CSS?
If you don't want to use a conditional comment (outside the CSS, e.g. defining a separare <style> section), the only thing you can use is CSS Hacks. See here for a "IE7 only" hack.
IE does support conditional comments, an IE-specific HTML comment syntax. You can use them to include IE7-specific CSS, e.g.
<!--[if IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie7.css" />
<![endif]-->
There’s no equivalent in CSS, unfortunately. But, as mentioned in other answers, there are some valid CSS hacks you can use to target CSS rules as just IE 7.
I personally prefer the conditional comment syntax as it’s a bit more explicit, but you can make the hacks explicit with comments.
If you don't want a separate stylesheet for IE hacks, here's another way doing it with using conditional comments:
<!--[if lt IE 7]><body class="ie6"><![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 7)&(lt IE 8)]><body class="ie7"><![endif]-->
<!--[if gte IE 8]><!--><body><!--<![endif]-->
...page content...
</body>
This give IE6, IE7 and [all other browsers] a different body element class. Now you can write rules like:
body.ie7 div.scroll { padding-bottom: 16px; }
are expressions valid? if so:
cssAttr: expression( /msie 7/i.test( navigator.userAgent ) ? '#ie7val' : '#0th3r1' );
I highly doubt they are though, and technically that's CSS, but it's really JavaScript in disguise!
IE7-Only css jack:
*:first-child+html{ }
I have the following CSS that i have "hacked" with PHP because it doesn't align properly in IE7. Is there a better way to do this without resorting to PHP?
#Menu
{
width: 100%;
height: 32px;
padding-top: <?php if(preg_match('/msie/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])){echo '22px';}else{echo '40px';}?>;
padding-left: 13px;
}
I want to avoid using conditional comments and having to maintain multiple css files.
Whoa. Yeah, don't do that. You'll want o look at using "conditional comments" to include the css you want. Your first commenter bendewey has shown how you can target IE7 easily. There are other types of conditional comments as well which will allow you to target other versions of IE.
Here they are:
<!--[if IE]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 5
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5.0]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 5.0
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5.5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 5.5
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 6]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 6
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 7
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gte IE 5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 5 and up
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 6]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer lower than 6
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 5.5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer lower or equal to 5.5
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 6]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer greater than 6
<![endif]-->
If you plan on doing a lot of adjustments for different versions of IE, you might plan ahead and use the "body class" trick. It looks kind of ugly in the markup, but it's a proven technique and sometimes it beats having lots of style sheets and style tags.
Here it is:
<!--[if !IE]>--><body><!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 6]><body class="ie6"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]><body class="ie7"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]><body class="ie8"><![endif]-->
And in your style sheet, you'd just reset any style you want by tacking on a class to the selector. Like this:
#some_div {
margin-top:30px;
}
.ie6 #some_div {
margin-top:40px;
}
.ie7 #some_div {
margin-top:50px;
}
Hopefully that makes sense. Either way, it's conditional comments you'll want to use instead of PHP.
This method still uses some conditional comments, but at least your not evaluating your code via PHP. In order to be of more assistance I would need to see a full code sample.
<style type="text/css">
#Menu {
width: 100%;
height: 32px;
padding-top: 40px;
padding-left: 13px;
}
</style>
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
#Menu {
padding-top: 22px;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
It's really hard to tell what's going on here without a demo page, but could it be that another element on the page is bumping it down an extra 18 pixels? Could it be that there is some default margin on the element? I can't think of anything else being the problem with the CSS you've given. Could the child elements be a different size in IE and other browsers?
Typically when I see dev's doing this sort of thing, it is because they don't understand what is going on. Then they end up with 3 separate copies of essentially the same, HUGE CSS file; and a lot of headaches.
IE conditional comments in a safe step in the right direction; especialyl that browser sniffing in your php example is doomed to fail as the user agent string is not guaranteed.
My best recommandation to you is to take the time once to read through the very boring W3C CSS documentation, if only the chapter about DISPLAY BLOCK and INLINE modes. Once you read that, 90% of your css layout problems will be solved. The rest is getting used to the most common IE6 bug, which is the infmaous "layout" mode.
#some_div {
_margin-top:40px; //Only works on IE6
*margin-top:30px; //Only works on IE7-IE6
margin-top:20px\9; //Only works on IE8-IE7-IE6
margin-top:10px; //Works on all others
}