#content { padding-top: 13px; *padding-top: 0; }
My Question is, what does the * do in this example?
It's from the source code on apple.com/uk website
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A:
It's a hack to serve IE, which improperly parses it, padding-top of 0.
meder
2010-10-22 16:47:15
thank you for your response
smoop
2010-10-28 16:11:18
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A:
My Question is, what does the * do in this example?
It is a CSS hack used to target IE6 and IE7.
#content {
padding-top: 13px; /* for standard-compliant browsers */
*padding-top: 0; /* for IE6 and IE7 */
}
Note: It is bad idea to go for CSS hacks. The better approach to target IE is to use IE conditional comments.
Sarfraz
2010-10-22 16:48:41
SO rather than using *html id{padding-top:0;} or *paddding etc use <!--[if IE 6]> the css<![endif]-->
smoop
2010-10-28 16:10:05