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Why is Stylesheet loaded when Contional Comment states it should be ignored?

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+3 A:

Try:

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
   <link id="IE6StyleSheet" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/IE6.css" />
<![endif]-->

This will only load the stylesheet for IE6 or lower versions. Here's a test script you can use, it will print out which version of IE you're using:

<p><!--[if IE]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer<br />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 5<br />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5.0]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 5.0<br />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 5.5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 5.5<br />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 6]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 6<br />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 7<br />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gte IE 5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer 5 and up<br />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 6]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer lower than 6<br />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 5.5]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer lower or equal to 5.5<br />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 6]>
According to the conditional comment this is Internet Explorer greater than 6<br />
<![endif]-->
</p>

You should not see any text in Firefox with this test code.

John Rasch 2009-04-27 21:04:53

Unfortunately I had started with [if lte IE 6] and alas it also does not seem to work :(

BlackMael 2009-04-27 21:46:33

Well what does the test script display in the browser?

John Rasch 2009-04-27 22:41:01

http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/sidepages/example2.htmlThis page seems to work across my various browsers.My question is why does my example above not work as expected

BlackMael 2009-04-27 22:58:28

Oh and the example above correctly picks the browser version.Even so...Still loads the stylesheet even if the browser is not IE6

BlackMael 2009-04-28 00:51:42

Problem solved now.. see above.

BlackMael 2009-04-28 00:57:46

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