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Asked: 2026-05-23T07:29:36+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Cross-browser CSS Ok, so the question might be somehow a little confusing.

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Cross-browser CSS

Ok, so the question might be somehow a little confusing.
I’m gonna try to put it in a much simpler way so “you” can understand my
point of view.

All browsers are different. Every browser interprets the CSS rules
diferent, which drives to different results. Some times the results are good
other times and much often results are totaly unexpected. The case of IE can lead to the worst scenario possible!

Many often, developers are forced to detect the browser to apply a
specific css style!
This can be achieved with javascript support. Anyhow, some people say
that this method it’s not enough to prevent disasters… others
think that the best way to deal with this problem it’s to rely on
Object detection instead.

Well, I don’t know which one is best…
Please feel free to give you opinion based on examples.
As always, thank you.

UPDATE

The case of IE can be very simple to deal with conditional statments but, safari can’t be treated the same way! So I leave this link: http://quirksmode.org/js/support.html to clarify my point of view…

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  1. Editorial Team

    Two things. First, make sure you include a DOCTYPE. If you don’t, browsers will default to quirks mode, and their interpretation of styles will be different. This way, you can minimize the different CSS interpretations of your page.

    Second, I’ll point out that IE (the big offender, in my experience) supports conditional comments, so you can include styles for specific IE versions like this:

    <!--[if lt IE 8]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="iehacks.css" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
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