basically I'd like to know if this code is ok
<body id="some_id" <!--[if lt IE 7 ]>class="ie6"<![endif]--> >
</body>
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A:
No. HTML comments can't be inside a tag. Try:
<!--[if gte IE 7]<!--> <body id="some_id"> <!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 7]> <body id="some_id" class="ie6"> <![endif]-->
RoToRa
2010-08-20 14:38:45
thanks, my trouble is that the body may or may not have an id depending on a server side script, looks like I'll have to find another solution
mjr
2010-08-20 14:49:52
@mjr why not let the server side script handle it then?
Pekka
2010-08-20 14:51:21
ya ... I'm not familiar with browser sniffing on the server side
mjr
2010-08-20 14:54:26
Why would the fact may or may not have an id, influence on whether or not you can use Conditional Comments?
RoToRa
2010-08-22 12:10:31
A:
No, and it's not necessary. Always give the class to the body element and leave the CSS .ie definition empty for all browsers but IE6:
.ie6 {
<!--[if lt IE 7]-->
... ugly ie6 hack ...
<!--[endif]-->
}
</style>
<body class="ie6">
Aaron Digulla
2010-08-20 14:41:57
good thought, but that limits me to one version of ie in the classIf I wanted to add and ie7 or ie8 class in the future, I don't know if this would be the best solution
mjr
2010-08-20 14:48:35
Why? You can add as many classes to a single element as you need (separate them by space) or you could use `ie` as the generic class and then put a lot of `if`s inside of the CSS.
Aaron Digulla
2010-08-23 07:48:06