Question

I’ve got a site that I just published and have just found a bunch of compatibility problems with Internet Explorer (surprise surprise!). I was on a time crunch and would like to keep the site up since it looks great on all other browsers but prevent people running Internet Explorer to see the site and give them a default splash page (if possible) while I work on the compatibility issues..

Is there a way to do this? I thought about using the conditional statements for the style sheets and maybe editing it that way but I thought I’d see if anyone knew of an easy way to do it.

Answer 1

you could use IE-only conditionals and display a overlay over the whole page, see here for conditionals . In your ie-only code you’d display something like this :

<!--[if IE]>
   <div style='position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;width:100%;height:100%;background:white;padding-top:50%;text-align:center;'>
          <!-- add more styling or split it up in some separate stylesheet-->
          This site is currently disabled for IE users
   </div>
<![endif]-->