-----Original Message----- More realistic example: assume you want to use css 2.1 selectors (those which are supported even by IE7). This makes it necessary to hide the rules from IE6 and as a consequence you will end up with 2 very different stylsheets: one for IE6 and below and one for IE7 and Firefox etc. This could be done with
<!--[if IE]><![if IE 7]><![endif]--> <style type="text/css"> css for Fx, Opera, Safari and IE 7 </style> <!--[if IE]><![endif]><![endif]--> <!--[if lte IE 6]> <style type="text/css"> css for IE 6 and IE 5.5 </style> <![endif]--> I'm not going to say thats beautiful or standards conform. But that is the documented proprietary selection mechanism called "conditional comments" for IE. ------------------------------------------------------- But in this example IE6 won't understand the CSS2.1 selectors and so will ignore them.... Therefore we just add some extra commands in an IE6 specific conditional comment so that IE6 displays the element in a suitable way. Isn't that pretty much the principle of graceful degradation? I personally use CC's on every site to deal with IE quirks, but wouldn't dream of trying to hack a (MS proprietary)conditional comment to feed stylesheets to other browsers. It seems very unsafe in terms of future proofing to me. Apologies if I'm missing the point! James ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
