I have a problem with displaying a set height in ie.
In my css I have set a height for my sidebar div as 2150px; which it displays fine in firefox but does not display the full height in ie.
How can I get ie to display the height I have set in ie?
Thanks in advance
The source code is below
#sidebar_newspr{
width:160px;
min-height:2150px;
margin-top:1px; margin-right:2px;
border-right-style:solid; border-right-color:#900; border-right-width:1px;
float:left;
}
#sidebar_newspr a{
text-decoration:none;
color:#FFF;
font-size:12px; font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}
#sidebar_newspr a:hover{
color:#900;
}
This is a bit of a shot in the dark because you didn't really specify which versions of IE you're testing it in. Nevertheless, min-height requires IE7 and IE8 to be operating in Standards Mode. To enable Standards Mode, you need to use a strict !DOCTYPE.
From the documentation:
In Internet Explorer 7, the min-height/max-height attributes apply to floating and absolutely positioned block, inline-block elements, and some intrinsic controls. They do not apply to non-replaced inline elements, such as table columns and row/column groups. (A "replaced" element has intrinsic dimensions, such as an img or textArea.)
In Internet Explorer 7, this property is enabled only under the strict !DOCTYPE.
min-height in IE6 applies only to th, td and tr elements.
Try to use conditional comments:
<!--[if lt IE 9]> //will target IE less than version 9
<link href="/directroy/IE.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<![endif]-->
To your head tag and use this new stylesheet to define what you want IE to do.
#sidebar_newspr{
width:160px;
height:2150px; /*change to just height*/
margin-top:1px; margin-right:2px;
border-right-style:solid; border-right-color:#900; border-right-width:1px;
float:left;
}
You can also use more than one Conditional comments to target different versions of IE.
Like so:
<!--[if IE 8]> //will target only IE 8
<link href="/directroy/IE.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<![endif]-->
Then try to set your doctype to strict:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Might work, if not then I'm sure someone else has another idea :)
Some versions of IE dislike min-height, I try to tend to avoid it if possible.
As a quick solution that wont weigh your page down like an IE only style, simply state height:2150px; min-height:2150px; Browsers that support min-height will take that, while the ones that don't support it will simply ignore it.
Related
My page has an H2 class that says
H2.clearboth {clear: both; height:16px;}
This works fine in I.E. but in Firefox and Chrome I need to ignore the height property because that is what is messing up the design. Is there a way for me to do this for Firefox and Chrome?
So I tried to do a browser specific -moz but there is no specific property for ignoring just height.
Thanks for any help or advice on this,
thanks,
Paul
You could treat IE as exception, and in your html add:
<!--[if IE]>
<style>
H2.clearboth {height:16px;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
Then your css could be fine:
H2.clearboth {clear: both;}
Better yet, why do you use H2{height:16px;} only on IE and not on all browsers?
If my css is:
font-family: inherit;
Is there any mozilla firefox specific attribute as:
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 20px;
which can be used for mozilla browsers only?
I know you can do this to only target Firefox, the only problem is it's not in the CSS, I'm not sure if there is a way of doing this for font-family in the CSS.
<html>
...
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#-moz-document url-prefix() {
font-family: inherit;
}
</style>
</head>
...
</html>
There is no Firefox specific way to write font-family: inherit;. Mozilla support inherit like any other browser, if that is what you mean?
Vendor-prefixed properties (like those used for some CSS3 properties) are only used for properties that are still "experimental" or evolving. The inherit keyword has been around for ages and therefor Firefox, like any other browser, implement it the way the CSS-specification states, without a vendor prefix.
If you want to target only Firefox with some specific CSS, this SO answer states that you can wrap the Mozilla specific properties with a #-moz-document rule. As only Mozilla will recognize that as valid CSS, all other browsers will ignore it. A bit "hacky" perhaps, but it sounds like your best shot.
Edit:
To target only IE with specific CSS, one way is to put it in an IE-specific stylesheet file, and then use the conditional comments for IE. All browsers but IE will see this as an HTML-comment, and therefor ignore it, but IE will apply the styling in that file.
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ie.css" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
.sample{
height:15px;
width:15px;
margin:10px;
padding:10px;
float:left:
/* this one apply in ie only */
border:1px solid #fff;
/* this one apply in ie only */
}
I would recommend using an entirely separate IE-specific stylesheet, to isolate all of the nasty IE hacks you use. Then, in your HTML, you can use a conditional comment to load that stylesheet for IE only.
HTML
<html>
<head>
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie-hacks.css">
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<!-- ... --->
</body>
</html>
ie-hacks.css
.sample{
border:1px solid #fff;
}
Use a conditional comment in the head of your HTML document.
<!--[if IE 6]>
.sample {border:1px solid #fff;}
<![endif]-->
check out "conditional CSS comments"
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
You can add !ie after the style declaration, e.g. .sample {border:1px solid #fff !ie;}. This works on IE 6 and 7, but doesn't work in 8, unless you trick it into IE7 compatibility mode using <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" > (just make sure this appears before the CSS).
The cleanest solution though, is to include am IE-specific CSS file.
If you need to make more changes, and to keep your pages clean, I would recommend using a separate stylesheet for IE.
<!--[if IE]>
//place link to IE stylesheet here.
<![endif]-->
Then make the change inside of the IE stylesheet.
you can simply do the following give some charcter like # or so before it. Firefox ,chrome and other browsers ignore that line but IE executes that.
Give that line at the end of your css so that it will take care. Most of the developers use this hack for margin, padding issues in IE browser
.sample{
height:15px;
width:15px;
margin:10px;
padding:10px;
float:left:
/* this one apply in ie only */
border:1px solid #fff;
# border:2px solid #fff;
/* this one apply in ie only */ for ie it treats as 2px.
}
I know in order to include a browser specific css file you can do the following
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
<!-->
But is there a way to do this in the actually stylesheet itself?
EDIT
Thanks for the replies, I am just going to build a new IE specific stylesheet and override what I need there. I think this is prob the best way to do things.
Check this post, scroll down to Hacks:
http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2009/02/20/css-standards-best-practices
Actually, yes there is.
It wont validate, but if you add _ before the property name so div {width: 200px;_width: 100px;} will be 200px wide in non-ie browsers and 100px in IE.
I have decided that building a separate stylesheet and then using the comment IF statement is the best solution. Keeps the stylesheets clean and it is more obvious to others as to what you are doing (overriding properties due to browser quirks).
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="StyleIE.css" />
<!-->
These work...
.foo{
border:1px solid #000;
*border:3px dotted #00f;/*IE6 & IE7 Only*/
_border:2px dashed #f00;/*IE6 Only*/
}
Thus the outcome is:
W3C Browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.)
1px solid black border
IE7
3px dotted blue border
IE6
2px dashed red border
As a last resort (and not highly recommended) you can use the dynamic properties by using expression() then test for the browser version (if you care)
you can also use the !important flag to do this, but that may have unintended side effects.
Click Me I'm !important
Has anyone been able to succesfully use the IE CSS hack #IEroot? I stumbled upon it from this article but it doesn't seem to work for me.
I'm trying to fix/hack the inline styling bug to produce li inline blocks
#featured li {
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
width:317px;
height:310px;
display:inline-block;
border-left:1px #bdbdbd solid;
}
#IEroot #featured li {
display:inline;
}
Any help would be greatly apperciated, thanks.
IT DOES WORK, exactly as described, EVEN in IE8, and is actually a pretty smart CSS hack to get around IE specific bugs.
You MUST swap out the DOCTYPE line for a REAL DOCTYPE though first.
Here is the code from the link, tweaked to be a working sample.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style>
/* all browsers make border red */
#IE { border : 2px solid red; }
/* all browsers see this, but only IE thinks #IEroot exists as an element and makes border blue */
#IEroot #IE { border-color : blue; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!--[if IE]>
<div id="IEroot">
<![endif]-->
<p id="IE">This browser is IE. (red in all, blue in IE)</p>
<p id="notIE">This browser is not IE.</p>
<!--[if IE]>
</div>
<![endif]-->
</body>
</html>
I'm using a beta of IE8, and the example on the page that you are referring to does not work. The live demo also doesn't seem to take IE8 in count.
These kinds of hacks are clever, but I'd advice you to stay away from it.
Whenever you encounter differences between browsers, there are always alternative ways to do the same thing in such a way that it works for all browsers.
I've made more websites full of CSS than I can count, and I never ever resort to browser-specific code, especially not the kind that exploits bugs in specific versions of browsers. They solve a tiny problem today, but give you twice the headaches tomorrow, and are a bitch to maintain.
If you insist on using such a hack, make sure to add a comment like this:
/* >>>>>>> BUTT-UGLY BROWSER HACK! FIX ME!!!!! <<<<<<<< */
#IEroot #featured li {
display:inline;
}
:-)