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Asked: 2026-05-20T18:28:53+00:00

<!–[if gte IE 5]> <link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=iemaster.css /> <![endif]–> <![if !(IE 5)]> <link

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 <!--[if gte IE 5]>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iemaster.css" />
    <![endif]-->
    <![if !(IE 5)]>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="master.css" />
    <![endif]>

to load a different stylesheets depending on whether or not it is IE. The problem is that i have button bar going across the top. In IE I need the padding at 0 and other wise i need it at 200px, but no matter what I do to the values, the bar in IE doesn’t seem to change. It changes for chrome though. The only thing that seems to work is if I make the class affecting it a different name then the non-IE one. Of course this means my non-IE wouldn’t load properly. Other then this the CSS seems to load perfectly. Why is this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    That’s not how you should be doing it.

    Nobody is using IE5, so forget about that.

    Do it like this instead:

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="master.css" />

<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie6.css" /><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie7.css" /><![endif]-->

    Your master stylesheet will get loaded in every browser.

    • Are you sure you care about IE6? If so, put IE6 specific rules inside ie6.css.
    • Put IE7 specific rules inside ie7.css.

    You shouldn’t need a separate stylesheet at all for IE8 or IE9. Those browsers are compliant enough to handle the same stylesheet as the other browsers.

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