Maybe I misunderstand how CSS Conditional Comments work, but I thought the bit in the middle of the conditional would only show up for IE... however Chrome and Firefox are both evaluating it, and having the left margin be 35px not -20px... What am I missing?
.policies li li { margin-left: -20px; }
<!--[if IE]>
.policies li { margin-left: 45px; }
.policies li li { margin-left: 35px; }
<![endif]-->
Conditional comments only work in HTML, not CSS. A common technique is to load a separate external stylesheet just for IE. Lately I've taken to just loading a single one for IE <= 8 and then using hacks inside that stylesheet to target IE 6 / 7 / 8 respectively.
Put
.policies li { margin-left: 45px; }
.policies li li { margin-left: 35px; }
into separate file like styles-ie.css, then include it in your page after all common CSS files and wrap in a conditional comment:
<!--[if IE]>
<link to your styles-ie.css />
<![endif]-->
Here is a Microsoft's reference.
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I have an element that currently has margin-left: -110px of course, this works with my design in all browsers except IE. With IE I need to make it margin-left: 10px
Normally, I would do my IE hacks by adding \9;, such as:
margin-left: 10px\9;
but it doesnt seem to work with margins. Does anyone know a way to acheive this? Many thanks!
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li id="newstab">News</li>
<li id="offerstab">Offers</li>
<li id="specialsstab">Specials</li>
</ul>
</div>
#nav {
position:absolute;
margin-left: -110px;
margin-left: 10px\9;
margin-top: 160px;
writing-mode:tb-rl;
-webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform:rotate(90deg);
-o-transform: rotate(90deg);
white-space:nowrap;
}
If you really need to, you can use an IE conditional block:
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<!--[if lt IE 10]>
<style type="text/css">
.thing {
margin-left: 10px;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
Found it was
writing-mode:tb-rl;
IE didnt like.
This site was useful:
http://www.useragentman.com/IETransformsTranslator/
.class {
text-align:right;
#media all and (-ms-high-contrast: none), (-ms-high-contrast: active) {
margin-left: 30px
}
margin-left: 90px;
}
You can write the specific css for IE, then overwrite other css for other browser.
You can use like this
<!--[if lte IE 7]> <html class="ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]> <html class="ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9]> <html class="ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]><!--> <html> <!--<![endif]-->
Then in your CSS, you would target IE7, IE8 or IE9 like this:
.element {
margin-left: 20px;
}
.ie7 .element {
margin-left: 10px;
}
.ie8 .element {
margin-left: 15px;
}
.ie9 .element {
margin-left: 10px;
}
Now every browser will have a left margin of 20px on the element in question, but IE7, IE8 and IE0 will have a left margin of 10px, 15px and 10px respectively.
Why are you using margin-left, when you are also using position:absolute?
You won't ever gain the desired effect of a margin when using position absolute (but that is not the actual issue here).
When using position absolute, you should always define the elements default datum point consisting of at least a top/bottom and left/right position - in your case, top:0; left:110px; (this is assuming the absolute positioned element is within a position:relative; parent container).
You are allowing the browsers to assume what you want to display, rather than actually defining and telling the browsers what you want to display - You should be doing this without fail on everything you build in CSS.
In not strictly defining where you want an element to sit using absolute positioning, you are asking for trouble in IE (especially lt IE9).
I'm using the following css :
.GridDraggedRow tr td.firstCol{
padding: 2px 10px 0 0;
text-align: right;
vertical-align: top;
width: 1px;
width: 1%\9; /* IE9 and below */
white-space: nowrap;
}
As you can see, I'm using a pretty ugly css hack.
My problem is that this hack is removed from the minified css file I'm generating with AjaxMin.
It is a post-build step in our delivery system so we're gonna stick with AjaxMin.
The ajaxmin documentation explains that several comment-based hacks are allowed with the use of the 'hacks' flag, ex:
ajaxmin -css -comments:hacks GridLayout.css
Unfortunately the \9 hack is not allowed.
What can I do ?
Parsing the generated file isn't a good idea in my opinion.
I guess my best choice is to insert this hack in another non-minified file or directly in the html page between tags...
Do you guys have a better idea ? It would be great that ajaxmin provide an exclusion section...
You shouldn't be using any of those ugly hacks!!
Use Paul Irish's conditional comments method instead.
Use this at the opening of your HTML tag:
<!--[if lt IE 10 ]> <html class="lt-ie10"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gt IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--> <html> <!--<![endif]-->
Then, in your CSS, use this:
.GridDraggedRow tr td.firstCol{
padding: 2px 10px 0 0;
text-align: right;
vertical-align: top;
width: 1px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.lt-ie9 .GridDraggedRow tr td.firstCol{
width: 1%;
}
This is much cleaner, and much more reliable.
I have a problem getting the fonts in links for a menu to look the same across browsers. It wouldn't be such a problem if it was just a small difference, but the fact of the matter is that in IE 9 the font looks to be at least a couple of pixels or more bigger than in the others, while using the exact same css.
Now being in a main menu, this looks pretty bad. Anyone know why this happens, and what I can do about it?
Here's the css rule:
ul#menu li a
{
width: 80%;
text-align: center;
font-family: HelveticaNeueLight, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 38px;
color: #333;
text-shadow: 0px 1px 0px #e5e5ee;
display: block;
/*Hiding dots around clicking on links*/
outline: none;
overflow: hidden;
}
If this is truly vital, and you do not mind using Conditional Comments to send IE-targeted CSS to the browser, you can create a Conditional Comment stylesheet for IE 9 like so:
<!--[if IE 9]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/ie9.css" />
<![endif]-->
With another CSS rule for the font-size property in this css file.
Otherwise, a good first step is to always use a CSS Reset to normalize between browsers. Commonly used resets are Eric Meyers and YUI.
Perhaps the CSS for some other property is inconsistent? I'd try using a CSS reset file (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/) or adding zoom: 100% in there to see if that fixes it.
I have a stylesheet that contains 10 selector definitions. When I view my website in IE and Chrome (I'm not including FF because it renders exactly like the way it does in Chrome), nine of the ten selector definitions work consistently across all browsers.
The one that doesn't work is defined as such:
a.dp-choose-date
{
/* border: 1px solid red; */
float: right;
width: 25px;
height: 25px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-left: 16px;
position: relative; /* This is only needed for IE */
top: -25px; /* This is only needed for IE */
margin: 0px;
display: block;
text-indent: -2000px;
overflow: hidden;
background: url(../images/calendar3.png) no-repeat;
}
As you can see, there are only two values that are necessary for IE. So I did some research on conditional CSS. I have now taken my style sheet and create a duplicate with the two additional entries for IE.
At the top of my document, I now have the following:
<!--[if IE]>
<link href="Styles/custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
<![if !IE]>
<link href="Styles/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]>
which is working, but can't I do the conditional statement at the selector level?
I also tried this in the CSS document which also didn't work.
[if IE] a.dp-choose-date {
/* definitions here */
}
Does anyone have any suggestions?
One way to do this is:
<link href="Styles/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--[if IE]> <link href="Styles/custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Notice than I do not have a conditional around the first style sheet.
Within the second style sheet just define the tag as:
a.dp-choose-date {
position: relative; /* This is only needed for IE */
top: -25px; /* This is only needed for IE */
}
Due to the way style sheets work, the browser will combine and apply both definitions.
You can make things easier on yourself by adding classes to target IE, and a nice way to do this is to wrap your opening html tag in conditionals like so:
<!--[if lt IE 7]><html lang="en" class="ie6"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]><html lang="en" class="ie7"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]><html lang="en" class="ie8"><![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]><!--><html lang="en"><!--<![endif]-->
This allows you to prefix your IE only selector with the version of IE you want to target:
a.dp-choose-date
{
/* border: 1px solid red; */
float: right;
width: 25px;
height: 25px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-left: 16px;
margin: 0px;
display: block;
text-indent: -2000px;
overflow: hidden;
background: url(../images/calendar3.png) no-repeat;
}
.ie6 a.dp-choose-date
{
position: relative;
top: -25px;
}
Using IE's if conditionals at the HTML level is probably the best way to fix kinks that IE (usually < 9) has. Conditional comments do not exist at the CSS level. You can also (if you wish) use CSS hacks, but that probably isn't the best solution, as later versions of IE may not necessarily allow those hacks, but may still have the same CSS issues.
By the way, your second if conditional should be written as the following for validation purposes:
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<link href="Styles/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--<![endif]-->
The easiest way to implement this logic:
[if IE] a.dp-choose-date {
/* definitions here */
}
is to use IE's conditional comments to write out unique body tags:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/cc-plus.html
So you can end up with something like this:
<body class="ie7">
Then, in your CSS, when you need to over-ride one style, you can do this:
.myStyle {--style for good browsers--}
.ie7 .myStyle {over-ride for IE7}
The benefits of this:
only one CSS file needs to be loaded (saving server requests)
your CSS remains valid (no ugly CSS hacks)
your over-ride styles stay with your good styles, so much easier to maintain
I'm currently working on getting my top nav to work in IE 6 - my site is
located here.
The tabbed item is the "current" selected menu, and its width is stretching to fill the rest of the space... what should I do to fix this without fixing the width, but setting it in some way that it doesn't expand like this?
Thanks!
Note this in your CSS:
#nav li a span.top-nav-parent {
background: url(images/nav/MPSC_tabs2.jpg) 100% 0;
display: block;
line-height: 32px;
padding-right: 9px;
padding-top: 13px;
}
Since you're using SPAN to display as a block element, set the display to inline-block instead.
Like so:
#nav li a span.top-nav-parent {
background: url(images/nav/MPSC_tabs2.jpg) 100% 0;
display: inline-block;
line-height: 32px;
padding-right: 9px;
padding-top: 13px;
}
This will now fix up your .top-current class from stealing the rest of the menu nav line.
Another thing is that it looks like you're including the stylesheet twice:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
Remove one and you've just cut down a little on needless code.