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Asked: 2026-05-20T23:19:49+00:00

I’m familiar with the VM solutions to run Windows on Mac, but my question

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I’m familiar with the VM solutions to run Windows on Mac, but my question is if there is a software that allows me to style in live preview mode via VM for IE?

e.x. in CSSEdit on Mac you can see changes you make in the CSS file live in the browser. I would love to have this functionality for styling IE too.

UPDATE:
to make the question a little bit clearer:

I need a desktop/Mac OS application that allows CSS styling and (!) has a live preview functionality that works accross Windows VM.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t have Internet Explorer to play with, so I can’t say for sure whether this technique will work, but you can make live in-page edits with Chromium, Opera and Firefox (on Ubuntu 10.10), with the following as an example:

    <head>
    <style contentEditable> <!-- note the 'contentEditable' -->
        div {
        clear: both;
            width: 400px;
            background-color: #f90;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="test">
        <p>This should start out orange. Ish. Please edit the above style to revise that, though.</p>
    </div>
</body>

    And with the CSS:

    style {
    display: block; // <-- the important bit.
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0.5em 0;
    padding: 0.5em 0;
    border-bottom: 2px solid #000;
}

    JS Fiddle demo

    Edited to note that in Chromium, if not others, using a carriage-return in the in-page, editable, style block can cause problems.

    Edited to add that while a carriage-return/newline using the enter button is problematic, shift + enter works fine (in Chromium and Firefox at least, the others I’ve not tested).

    Updated the JS Fiddle demo in response.

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