Internet explorer 8 only hack

Und vermutlich auch meinen Verstand. May be MS is kinda deaf and blind and needs huge controls? Thanks a million! Jeff Clayton The rest of them took a lot of time to create. Jeff Clayton Also — I love this page, beautiful work! Jeff Clayton Correction — the two IE8 slash-zero hacks on the bottom of the list I did not create, but tested them for browser compatibility at browserhacks, and use them as a base for other hacks I have written.

Jeff Clayton You are right about their being many of them to the point of insanity… maybe so. Krony Hi Jeff, well, web developers around the world are praising you for this. Jeff Clayton You got it! I am testing the Safari 9 beta at this time for the next few…. Jeff Clayton Merry Christmas! Palantir: You're right that conditional comments are a kind of hack, but at least they're "officially" supported and can be targeted directly at a specific version as required, rather than just relying on quirks of the engine to interpret them in different ways.

Another thing to slightly strengthen the argument for a hack is what if there is already a hack for ie7, above a hack for ie6. You would want to keep the hacks together, rather than seperating the ie8 hack away in another place in the code. Show 2 more comments. Paul Sweatte Paul Sweatte Do you have an IE8 and below hack?

I've updated the answer with those hacks. Actually there no hack method for ie8-only style except conditional css. The essence of the CSS reset in the answer uses the cascade. The cascade allows implicit overriding of rules based on source order. This is the nature of CSS, and is both backwards-compatible and forwards-compatible.

It's a bit of necromancy, but At all. Additionally your comments should really reflect that IE8's applies to , rather than sweeping that fact under the cascade. BalusC BalusC 1. Tried it with property content and it won't budge under IE8 haven't checked other IE versions. I'm guessing this is because we pass a quoted string value and this hack and perhaps other hacks too may not be compatible with it. Doing something like this should work for you. John Fisher John Fisher So a recent question prompted me to notice a selector set hack for excluding IE 8 only.

Pleeeeease don't use hacks! Hacks to override other hacks is even worse! If it was me, I'd go with conditionals, as Plantir already answered. For IE8 native browser alone:. Sunkhern Sunkhern 4 4 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. The zoom property triggers the hasLayout feature of elements, and it is available only in Internet Explorer. Other browsers will simply ignore the rule.

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