Only CSS Hack You Will Ever Need... Seriously.

While working on a few of my clients pages, I have always used other methods for CSS hacks but mostly using PHP to detect the remote user User-Agent and come up with the specific CSS. Until I have discovered this one:

You can actually have IE6 specific lines in CSS, it is as simple as prefixing them with an underscore. Sure, you might start complaining “STANDARDS!!11!” If I had to choose from a site that works fine in every browser and standards, I will go with the more working one. That is not all! You can actually have lines that are both IE6 & IE7 specific in CSS by prefixing them with a dot.

So to sum it up, let's say if I use a left margin that has to be 5px in Firefox/Opera, 6px for IE6 & 7px for IE7, Here is how I would do it:

margin-left: 5px; /* Left margin for all browsers, mainly Opera, Firefox, etc. /
.margin-left: 7px; / Left margin of 7px that can be readable by both IE6 & IE7, now other still think it's 5 while IE6 & IE7 think it's 7 /
_margin-left: 6px; / Only IE6 reads this and changes the value to 6px */

I have to admit I was pretty happy upon discovering this hack; I will definitely be using it for a while now that I have found a pretty good one.

Do you have any of your own do not need loads of JavaScript and/or PHP code to work? If so, comment below!

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