After reading some of the other questions on here and trying their solutions, I still have this issue with XQuery.
We are using a conditional comment to see if IE is being used. We are dynamically building paths to our javascript files like so.
<!--[if lte IE]>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{$layout:cdnPath}/scripts/browser-detect-admin.js"> </script>
<![endif]-->
But it seems that the script element is being evaluated as text and not building the correct path to our javascript. It is thinking that {$layout:cdnPath}/scripts/browser-detect-admin.js is the path to the file. I can't figure out why.
I tested this in IE 7,8 and also in IE 9 compatibility mode.
That is correct. Such expression templates are not evaluated within literal comment. Use a comment constructor instead:
comment {concat('[if lte IE]>
<script type="text/javascript" src="', $layour:cdnPath, '/scripts/browser-detect-admin.js"> </script>
<![endif]')}
HTH
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I am trying to call a different style sheet in the head section of my page depending on if the browser used is IE. It's "greyed" out but from what I understand, it's still supposed to work this way. The two style sheets are identical except for one line. But, it's not linking to mainIE.css and not replacing main.css. Am I doing something wrong?
<link href="examples/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--[if IE]>
<link href="examples/mainIE.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
First, the conditional comments aren't supported in IE 10 and up. That may be why you are not seeing the other stylesheet load.
Second, the conditional comment won't instruct IE to replace your first stylesheet, just to load up another one. Typically in the second stylesheet you would just put in only the differences and let the C in CSS take care of it for you.
Try the following:
<!--[if !IE]><!--><link href="examples/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE]><link href="examples/mainIE.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><![endif]-->
Also I knew you can do the same thing within one CSS file, if only one line is the difference.
as noted, conditional comments don't work in ie10+; you need to use conditional compilation to target them...with that said, i'm not sure how to differentiate between ie10, 11 and mobile exactly, but i bet you can simply check your jscript version. here's a demo of conditional compilation
http://dev.bowdenweb.com/ua/browsers/ie/conditional-compilation.html
The second ('commented') stylesheet for IE will NOT replace your existing stylesheet. It's added in as a comment so all other browsers ignore it, and IE tries to find comments with this [if] statement in it to display that content. Your IE stylesheet can simply overwrite that single line that's different instead of the whole stylesheet (DRY!), saving the IE user a duplicate download.
The latest versions of IE do not support them anymore (http://www.sitepoint.com/microsoft-drop-ie10-conditional-comments/), otherwise you can find more info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
[EDIT: here is a Javascript solution]
You could always do it with javascript if you went to target only IE users. You could do something like the following:
var useragent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var internetExplorer = (
useragent.indexOf("trident") >= 0
|| useragent.indexOf("ms") >= 0
|| useragent.indexOf("ie") >= 0
) ? true : false;
if(internetExplorer){
// do whatever you want here, like...
document.getElementById("myElement").style.height = "100px";
}
[EDIT2:] Actually, you could just write the stylesheet if its IE:
if(internetExplorer){
document.write('<link href="examples/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />');
}
I am creating a website for my company's product (I am pretty new at this), and I have just realised that A LOT of the formatting I have done seems to be completely ignored by IE versions 8 and below.
Is there a way for me to make the website direct the users of these browsers to a completely different and extremely simplified version of my website?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
The better way is to fix the issues by using a different stylesheet for IE8 and below.
This can be done using the conditional statements.
<!--[if lte IE 8]>
// Your IE8 and below HTML code here or
// Perhaps importing a specific style sheet as
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie8_and_below.css" />
<![endif]-->
If you wish to have a simplified version for IE8 and below, add this script on the page for which you want to have a minimized version.
<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.location = "http://www.example.com/ie8";
</script>
<![endif]-->
Then add your HTML markup on ie8 HTML page which will be only for IE8 and below.
You can target IE versions using conditional statements to include CSS files only to be loaded by those browsers. For example, to load a stylesheet only in IE8 and below, use:
<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie.css" />
<![endif]-->
You can read more about conditional statements for IE here.
Alternatively you could sniff out the browser user-agent, and redirect accordingly but this is a less ideal solution, and it would involve page duplication.
You can get the version of the browser by the DOM object. Then you can put that in a if-else and check the version to be greater or not and then according redirect your page to somewhere else. You can also check if the user is using IE or some other browser.
var ver=navigator.appVersion;
var brw=navigator.userAgent;
if(brw.equals("msie"))
{
if(ver<8)
//redirect
else
//stay or something else
}
hope this helps.
How do I import an css file for Chrome (or webkit).
I want to do something like this for ie6:
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie6.css" />
<![endif]-->
Your best, and easiest, bet is using a server-side language that can detect the user's browser. PHP, ColdFusion, JSP, etc have built-in functions and variables that can help you determine the browser a user has.
If not, then a client-side scripting agent is your next option. JavaScript, and its efficient library option, jQuery, are good approaches.
//jQuery
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script>
if ($.browser.webkit) {
///Chrome-specific css here.
}
</script>
If you can't (or don't know how to) use the library, then the following works as well, but you'll need to do a few more conditional checks
//Javascript (Note: Chrome will say 'Netscape' for its name)
<script>
var browserName = window.navigator.appName;
var browserVersion = window.navigator.appVersion;
</script>
if you want to only change lines of code instead load a full css file you could use this:
http://rafael.adm.br/css_browser_selector/
I'm working on a small website, but of course IE doesn't view it the same as Chrome or Firefox do. I've read around and found using <--[if IE]> should make only IE use the stylesheet I need.
When I was using Microsoft Expression on a different PC earlier, it worked fine. I came home and started editing in Dreamweaver CS5, now it doesn't work as it should.
I researched it a little and I know that Dreamweaver views it as a comment rather than an if function.
So how can I fix/get around this?
Thanks in advance!
P.S. The whole piece of code I'm using is <!--[if IE ]> <link href="IEcss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <![endif]-->
Edit: I found the answer, I had to close the comment tag before referencing the stylesheet. http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
You have a space after IE:
<!--[if IE ]>
Should be:
<!--[if IE]>
Other than that, it looks correct. But the space may very well be throwing it off, because conditional comments have to match an exact syntax – otherwise they get interpreted as regular comments and ignored.
Design-Time style sheets allow you to show or hide design applied by a CSS style sheet as you work in a Dreamweaver document. For example, you can use this option to include or exclude the effect of a Macintosh-only or a Windows-only style sheet as you design a page.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7e17a.html
I have a master page to apply to all my pages, the master page is doing its work however, it seems that is unable to resolve the CSS file address for pages I have in child folders.
I have a set of folders like this:
RootContent
UsersContent
AdminContent
Since the master page and css files are on the Root content, when the master page tries to locate the css file inside UsersContent or AdminContent it cannot find it.
I'm using JavaScript to detect the browser and set the css properly for most browsers and another file for IE6 since is required in here, any ideas?.
<script type="text/javascript">
if((BrowserDetect.browser.toString() == "Firefox") && (BrowserDetect.version.toString() == "3.5"))
{
document.write('<link rel="Stylesheet" href="<%=ResolveUrl("~/StyleSheet.css") %>" type="text/css" />');
}
else if((BrowserDetect.browser.toString() == "Explorer") && (BrowserDetect.version.toString() == "6"))
{
document.write('<link rel="Stylesheet" href="~/StylesheetIE6.css" type="text/css" />');
}
</script>
In the code above I tried <% ResolveUrl("~/StyleSheet.css") %> but didn't work, it works while in the same folder but not on the childs.
EDIT: Just to clarify my CSS file is on my Root Folder not on the childs
A simplest way Add App_Themes folder under your web project. Add a theme and under that theme add all css files include their respective image directories.
In your web.config, add
It will automatically get added to the every page.
Note:- In this case all css will get applied. If you have browser specific css, then this is not the way.
[SEE UPDATED]
a CSS file like "iespecific.css" to be loaded by IE 6 and not other browsers, use the following code in the HEAD section of your web page:
<!--[if IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iespecific.css" />
<![endif]-->
Likewise, for any version of IE 5 (including 5.0, 5.01, 5.5, etc), use the following:
<!--[if IE 5]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iespecific.css" />
<![endif]-->
to detect the release build of IE 5.5, you will need the following code:
<!--[if IE 5.5000]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iespecific.css" />
<![endif]-->
For example, to test for all versions of IE greater than or equal to version 6, you can use
<!--[if gte IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iespecific.css" />
<![endif]-->
The above code examples work because a normal browser sees the entire block as HTML comments since they are enclosed within "". IE 5 or above will however attempt to parse the block to see if it has instructions specific to it.
You can also exclude a certain style sheet using this method. For example, to exclude the CSS file "not-ie.css" from IE 6, use:
<![if !(IE 6)]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="not-ie.css" />
<![endif]>
Notice the operator "!" immediately preceding "IE". This is the NOT operator, causing the statements following to be used only if the expression "IE 6" is not matched by the browser.
Again, the above code works because a normal browser will interpret "" and "<[endif]>" as HTML tags that it does not recognise, and ignore them. This code, however, will not validate as correct in a HTML validator, since it does not use valid HTML tags.
Note that you can also test for IE without specifying a version number. For example, the following loads the style sheet only if the browser is not IE 5 or above:
<![if !IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="not-ie.css" />
<![endif]>
Microsoft's documentation for this non-standard feature can be found at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512.aspx
Since the documentation does not specify that these features apply only to the Windows versions of IE, I assume that they also apply to the Macintosh version. I'm not able to verify this though.
I have always used ResolveClientUrl for this purpose. Can you try that instead of ResolveUrl? And here's a post discussing the difference.
Have you tried adding runat="server" to the link tag? Worked for me.