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> From: Diona Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: December 5, 2006 11:47:01 PM EST > To: "Andy Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS Conditional Statements > > Thanks. I really appreciate the the info. That answers my biggest > question. I'll be sure to read up on that throughly. > > Diiona > > On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Andy Pemberton wrote: > >> Diona: >> >> Conditional comments are a proprietary Microsoft technology. They >> aren't parsed at all by the other browsers, rather they are seen >> as regular HTML comments (that's where the name comes from). >> >> <!-- Here is an HTML comment --> >> >> Read the MSDN article I sent thoroughly to understand CCs and how >> they're parsed. >> >> Conditional comments, are in my opinion, the 'best practice' way >> to filter rules specifically to Internet Explorer (or non-IE >> browsers, per the article's instruction). This practice avoids CSS >> filters ( http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/) or 'hacks' as >> some would call them and are more future-safe than are CSS filters. >> >> Andy >> >> >> >> On 12/5/06, Diona Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks Shelly and Andy. :) >> >> Shelly, that was a misnomer or mis-type. I followed the article and >> added the stylesheets to the head of the document after the global >> stylesheet. I have also seen conditionals in css, although I can't >> find the link at the moment. I just wasn't sure which is the most >> acceptable or more commonly used approach. Yes, this is an older >> post. Maybe I need to try it again or read up more. >> >> I also noticed the use of lt and lte. Andy's link mentioned these >> mean 'less than' and 'less than or equal to'. I'm guessing an >> evaluation done in by the browser to determine if the browser version >> is less than the specified version. I wasn't aware that IE supported >> this. Are there other supported conditional statements that I'm >> unaware of or are they all IE related? Is it just unrecognized in >> other browsers and ignored, or it is recognized and evaluated false? >> To clarify my question...Andy mentioned MSDN, is this cross-browser >> compatible or does IE just recognize the conditionals? >> >> I want to move away from hacks but I also want to understand how the >> conditional statements are implemented. Is this part of the W3C >> standard or is this something implemented by a particular vendor >> (Microsoft)? >> >> While reading on CSS3, I see that it might support conditionals and >> regexs but I also realize it'll probably be a very, very long time >> before seeing support for this. >> >> Can you guys provide any working examples I can look at? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Diona >> >> >> On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:53 PM, Shelly wrote: >> >> > >>Is anyone using conditional statements in their CSS?<< >> > >> > I use conditional comments all the time. This is an older article, >> > i think - I remember reading it before - but this is the method I >> > use when I use CC's. I have no problem whatsoever with them. >> > >> > As for "what the known support" is - anything above IE5 on PC. IE5 >> > for Mac doesn't see them. >> > >> > Now, I also noticed you said "*IN the CSS" - are you placing the >> > conditional comment within your CSS file? Because that would be >> > the problem - the CC goes in the head of your document, below any >> > other calls to other stylesheets - best place to put it is right >> > before the closing </head> tag. (If you put it *before* the >> > original stylesheet calls, then the CC won't override the other >> > stuff - it has to be after) >> > >> > ~Shelly >> > >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> _ >> css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] >> http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d >> IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 >> List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ >> Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ >> > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
