George Ornbo wrote: > On 3/28/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Use a common style sheet, with one (or more) second IE-only stylesheets >> linked into the HTML via conditional comments. No hacks needed. >> > > I'd second that. Try and avoid hacks entirely if you can. The box > model hack is easy enough to avoid if you code defensively. If you > really need to hack use conditional stylesheets. Hacking in the same > stylesheet can cause problems in newer browsers, especially IE7. >
It can cause problems, but not if you do it right. For instance, if you use the star html hack in your main style sheet to feed a rule to IE 6 and lower, and IE 7 doesn't need the different rule, then there is no harm in including it in your style sheet. You're only hacking dead browsers at this point, so you're safe. (I suppose you could argue that they could add back support for star html to IE 8, but even in that extremely unlikely case, you'd have to go back to all your sites anyway to fix other things if the IE team was that foolish, so it wouldn't hurt to have this one extra hack to fix.) If, on the other hand, you need that different rule to be read by IE 7 in addition to IE 6 and lower (which I find is usually the case -- IE 7 needs almost as many hacks as IE 6), then you're probably best off just feeding that rule to all versions of IE via a separate sheet hidden from other browsers through conditional comments. Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
