Is there a way to reference another CSS page when IE is used? 2

[magicandmight]

As most everyone knows IE is not up-to-date with CSS standards. As you can guess this is very annoying when attempting to make my company's webpage CSS validated. Is there a way to reference another CSS page when IE is used?

My website:

http://www.tbsonline.com/temp.html

CSS Page:

http://www.tbsonline.com/ex2.html

 

[magicandmight]

Sorry CSS page is

http://www.tbsonline.com/ex2.css

 

[Vragabond]

Looking at your page, it looks pretty simple. It should work ok with all the currently popular browsers: IE6, Mozilla, FF, NN7, Opera 7+, etc. The first thing to know is to put the correct DOCTYPE at the beginning of the document (you already have that). Next is to validate your (x)html and css at all times and finally use correct tags to display correct items on your page. I am afraid I cannot test your page across different browsers at the moment, but think that it should work ok if you follow the above guidelines. If you still need browser specific css, look at the options here:

http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/index.php

There should be options how to do it without javascript, which is the best way to go.

 

[ChrisHunt]

Like Vrag says, you really shouldn't need to send a completely different stylesheet for IE with such a simple site. However, if you do find you need to do it, there's a couple of techniques for doing it about halfway down this page:

http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/10/07/css-negotiation/

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[remco5897]

The trick is to have a standard style sheet for all standard compliant browsers and then to have a second style sheet with just the exception style rules for IE.

You can do it like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="

http://www.domain.com/standardCSS.css"

type="text/css" />
<!-- [if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="

http://www.domain.com/ExeptionRulesForIE.css"

type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

The IF is only read by IE, other browsers think its a comment and thus ignore it.

good luck!

 

[Olavxxx]

remco: this was a very valuable post!
I gave you a star for it, even though I dont need it. I however see that it is a valuable post.

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster

 

[remco5897]

thank u!

remco