How to Design a CSS Web Site for Both Firefox and Internet Explorer - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Sep 09
  

  Ameeno

  The placement of this line of CSS is important if my page is still to look good in Firefox and Safari. The IE line needs to come first. Firefox and Safari will read that line and then it will be over-ridden by the body > div#nav selector lower in the document. IE 6 will read the first line and set the styles. It will then ignore the child selector, as it doesn't recognize them. When IE 7 comes along, it will act like Firefox and Safari.

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• 03 Apr 09
  

  Charith Rodrigo

  From Internet Explorer Ebooks CSS

• 12 Dec 08
  

  Powmow

  • Hiding Styles from IE 6

    
    

    It's actually really easy to hide styles from IE 6 but make them visible to standards compliant browsers. Use child selectors.
    

    In one design I built, I created a two column layout that required margins and padding. This meant that I was hitting the box model differences when I viewed the page in IE 6. My first CSS style sheet for Firefox included a line like this:
    

    div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

    
    

    This made the page line up perfectly in Firefox and Safari, but in IE the nav column was pushed over to the right too far.
    

    So, I converted the line to use child selectors. The #nav div is a child of the body tag, so I changed the line to read:
    

    body > div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

    
    

    Of course, doing this made the #nav div lose all it's properties in IE, so I needed to add in some IE styles to get IE 6 looking okay. I added this line to the CSS:
    

    #nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 10px; }

    
    

    The placement of this line of CSS is important if my page is still to look good in Firefox and Safari. The IE line needs to come first. Firefox and Safari will read that line and then it will be over-ridden by the body > div#nav selector lower in the document. IE 6 will read the first line and set the styles. It will then ignore the child selector, as it doesn't recognize them. When IE 7 comes along, it will act like Firefox and Safari.

  • Hiding Styles from IE 6

    
    

    It's actually really easy to hide styles from IE 6 but make them visible to standards compliant browsers. Use child selectors.
    

    In one design I built, I created a two column layout that required margins and padding. This meant that I was hitting the box model differences when I viewed the page in IE 6. My first CSS style sheet for Firefox included a line like this:
    

    div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

    
    

    This made the page line up perfectly in Firefox and Safari, but in IE the nav column was pushed over to the right too far.
    

    So, I converted the line to use child selectors. The #nav div is a child of the body tag, so I changed the line to read:
    

    body > div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

    
    

    Of course, doing this made the #nav div lose all it's properties in IE, so I needed to add in some IE styles to get IE 6 looking okay. I added this line to the CSS:
    

    #nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 10px; }

    
    

    The placement of this line of CSS is important if my page is still to look good in Firefox and Safari. The IE line needs to come first. Firefox and Safari will read that line and then it will be over-ridden by the body > div#nav selector lower in the document. IE 6 will read the first line and set the styles. It will then ignore the child selector, as it doesn't recognize them. When IE 7 comes along, it will act like Firefox and Safari.

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  • • Hiding Styles from IE 6

      
      

      It's actually really easy to hide styles from IE 6 but make them visible to standards compliant browsers. Use child selectors.
      

      In one design I built, I created a two column layout that required margins and padding. This meant that I was hitting the box model differences when I viewed the page in IE 6. My first CSS style sheet for Firefox included a line like this:
      

      div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

      
      

      This made the page line up perfectly in Firefox and Safari, but in IE the nav column was pushed over to the right too far.
      

      So, I converted the line to use child selectors. The #nav div is a child of the body tag, so I changed the line to read:
      

      body > div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

      
      

      Of course, doing this made the #nav div lose all it's properties in IE, so I needed to add in some IE styles to get IE 6 looking okay. I added this line to the CSS:
      

      #nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 10px; }

      
      

      The placement of this line of CSS is important if my page is still to look good in Firefox and Safari. The IE line needs to come first. Firefox and Safari will read that line and then it will be over-ridden by the body > div#nav selector lower in the document. IE 6 will read the first line and set the styles. It will then ignore the child selector, as it doesn't recognize them. When IE 7 comes along, it will act like Firefox and Safari.
      

    • Hiding Styles from IE 6

      
      

      It's actually really easy to hide styles from IE 6 but make them visible to standards compliant browsers. Use child selectors.
      

      In one design I built, I created a two column layout that required margins and padding. This meant that I was hitting the box model differences when I viewed the page in IE 6. My first CSS style sheet for Firefox included a line like this:
      

      div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

      
      

      This made the page line up perfectly in Firefox and Safari, but in IE the nav column was pushed over to the right too far.
      

      So, I converted the line to use child selectors. The #nav div is a child of the body tag, so I changed the line to read:
      

      body > div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

      
      

      Of course, doing this made the #nav div lose all it's properties in IE, so I needed to add in some IE styles to get IE 6 looking okay. I added this line to the CSS:
      

      #nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 10px; }

      
      

      The placement of this line of CSS is important if my page is still to look good in Firefox and Safari. The IE line needs to come first. Firefox and Safari will read that line and then it will be over-ridden by the body > div#nav selector lower in the document. IE 6 will read the first line and set the styles. It will then ignore the child selector, as it doesn't recognize them. When IE 7 comes along, it will act like Firefox and Safari.
      

    • Hiding Styles from IE 6

      
      

      It's actually really easy to hide styles from IE 6 but make them visible to standards compliant browsers. Use child selectors.
      

      In one design I built, I created a two column layout that required margins and padding. This meant that I was hitting the box model differences when I viewed the page in IE 6. My first CSS style sheet for Firefox included a line like this:
      

      div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

      
      

      This made the page line up perfectly in Firefox and Safari, but in IE the nav column was pushed over to the right too far.
      

      So, I converted the line to use child selectors. The #nav div is a child of the body tag, so I changed the line to read:
      

      body > div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }

      
      

      Of course, doing this made the #nav div lose all it's properties in IE, so I needed to add in some IE styles to get IE 6 looking okay. I added this line to the CSS:
      

      #nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 10px; }

      
      

      The placement of this line of CSS is important if my page is still to look good in Firefox and Safari. The IE line needs to come first. Firefox and Safari will read that line and then it will be over-ridden by the body > div#nav selector lower in the document. IE 6 will read the first line and set the styles. It will then ignore the child selector, as it doesn't recognize them. When IE 7 comes along, it will act like Firefox and Safari.
      

      By designing for a standards-compliant browser first, and then modifying your CSS to support IE's quirks, you spend a lot less time fiddling with the design and a lot more time

• 27 Oct 08
  

  Jennifer Wagner

  web2.0

• 21 Dec 06
  

  Stuart Maxwell

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• 14 Sep 06
  

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