Another way to use IE conditional comments for CSS

Hopefully, many of you are now using IE’s conditional comments to avoid using CSS hacks to cover for that browser’s inadequacies. I was already using them when IE7 came along, causing further problems with some rules working properly and others not - this then led to three separate stylesheets (one basic, two overrides) which can be a nightmare to maintain. Plus, the HTML begins to look very ugly around the stylesheet call area and you get extra http requests.

I came across this suggestion a few weeks ago and it works very nicely. I now have one stylesheet, with legal IE-specific overrides just after the original rule they correspond to.

http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/cc-plus.html

I hope somebody else finds it useful!

That’s a very useful article indeed. I think I’m going to start regularly using that. Thanks for the linkage.

Thanks for the tip, it’s been a while I didn’t check positioniseverything and they are still at the top of their game great content !