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Asked: 2026-06-15T05:44:27+00:00

I have in my code the likes of: <!–[if IE 6]> <link rel=stylesheet type=text/css

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I have in my code the likes of:

<!--[if IE 6]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie6_Stylesheet.css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie7_Stylesheet.css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie8_Stylesheet.css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie9_Stylesheet.css" />
<![endif]-->

I can see that these lines show up in the source code on all my different browsers, but what I want to know is if they actually slow the pages from loading for any browser that isn’t IE?

I’m almost sure it doesn’t but I can’t find definitively and I’ve been told by someone else that it does cause server requests

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are correct, the conditional stylesheets will not be loaded in any other browser except the version of IE that the condition matches. Conditional stylesheets will not generate any extra page requests for non-IE browsers.

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