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Hash sign in front of property name - CSS browser hack?
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I have a sample CSS that I downloaded that has the entry
#text-align: right;
in it. The comment next to the entry says that this expression justifies it for IE, whereas
text-align: right;
works for Safari and Chrome. My question: what is the significance of the hash in this context?
Thanks!
This is something called a "CSS hack" which alters the behavior of IE because it is so terrible and doesn't support the latest CSS definitions. Other browsers will ignore the statement entirely (as if it were a comment) but IE will treat it as text-align:right;
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I clone a repository and see bellow CSS class
button,
input {
*overflow: visible;
line-height: normal;
}
I've never seen * prefix before overflow.what is *overflow exactly and what is the difference between overflow and *overflow?
It could be a typo or as I remember might be for browser compatible issues, for older version of IE browser hacks: "Asterisk hack" for IE 5,6,7.
This is used to be our life before the modern browser era, using hacks to fix browser compatible issues.
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I found this properties in a CSS file from a know blog. I severely questioned its use and if it is allowed to use them, so here is the code.
*margin
*padding
Real example:
.offset1 {
margin-left: 11.325966850829%;
*margin-left: 11.219583872105%
}
It's a hack to deal with Internet Explorer compatibility
See here
It is a hack for Internet Explorer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_filter
http://www.paulirish.com/2009/browser-specific-css-hacks/
It's a hack, used to apply different styles to older IE browsers.
http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/csshacks3.shtml#unrecommended-asterisk_prefix
Tha means that selector is targeting ie7 and below only
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min-width: 160px;
max-width: 220px;
_width: 160px;
I know it's some version of IE, 6, 7 or 8. But can't figure out which one...
MSIE 5+ will process the tag as if there were no underscore, whereas other browsers will ignore that tag completely.
See http://wellstyled.com/css-underscore-hack.html
This smells like IE6. As far as I remember, IE7 added support for min- and max-width.
Of course this solution makes it static for IE5+6, and dynamic for other browsers.
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What does a star-preceded property mean in CSS?
I downloaded CSS file for one of jQuery scripts and it look like this
.usual div {
*margin-top:-15px;
clear:left;
background:snow;
font:10pt Georgia;
}
what is the use of star sign?
This is a hack for IE7 and under. Only those browsers will respond to the CSS rule, as it's considered invalid to all other browsers.
It's a hack to, in this case, change positioning in certain versions of IE.
The CSS standard says to ignore properties whose names are preceded with some character, but some versions of Internet Explorer ignore this. Some you might see are:
*someproperty: somevalue - IE7 and earlier affected
_someproperty: somevalue - IE6 and earlier affected
#someproperty: somevalue - I forget. Probably the same effect as *.
You should probably use conditional comments instead, however.
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input,textarea,select{font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-weight:inherit;}
input,textarea,select{*font-size:100%;}
This is from the YUI reset css. What does the * before font-size:100% do?
This is an IE hack. The second line is only correctly parsed and executed by IE 7 and below. See http://www.webdevout.net/css-hacks#unrecommended-asterisk_prefix for more information.
Edit: One remark on using such (invalid!) CSS: please don't. There are plenty of ways of keeping your CSS clean of such mess. You'll never know what behavior IE9 might bring. Better to put these kind of hacks in a separate CSS file which can then be included through conditional comments.
To be more precise: IE6/7 doesn't support font-size: inherit. This hack is supposed to achieve the goal anyway.
I think it's a hack to make that definition only apply to IE 7 or less while being ignored by other browser as an asterisk is not a legal character before an attribute name.
As already told, those are hack to target specific browsers. Marc's suggestion is quiet right, and here's a link to give you an kick start:
http://www.webdevout.net/css-hacks