Question

When I use a conditional statement targeting IE6 and below with some PHP code Google Chrome disregards the statement and inserts the code.

Example:

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<?php require_once("ie6.php"); ?>
<![endif]-->

It will insert the content of ie6.php in the body anyway.

The code in ie6.php is something like this:

<?php print '<p>This is IE6</p>'; ?>

Anybody got this problem before?

Answer 1

The problem was that inside the html code in the ie6.php was another comment and Chrome didn’t like it.

Something like this:

<?php print '<p>This is IE6 <!--a comment--> </p>'; ?>

It seems Chrome was interpreting the comment closing tag as the end tag and subsequently “misreading” the conditional statement.