Using IE conditional comments inside a stylesheet

Conditional comments do not work within stylesheets. Instead, you can use conditional comments in your HTML to apply different CSS classes or IDs to elements that you can then target with CSS. For instance: <!–[if IE]> <div id=”wrapper” class=”ie”> <![endif]–> <!–[if !IE]> <div id=”wrapper”> <![endif]–> Also, there are tools such as Modernizr that do feature … Read more

Javascript IE detection, why not use simple conditional comments? [duplicate]

James Padolsey put a little snippet on GitHub that I’ll quote here: // ———————————————————- // A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript // without resorting to user-agent sniffing // ———————————————————- // If you’re not in IE (or IE version is less than 5) then: // ie === undefined // If you’re in … Read more

Why doesn’t Internet Explorer 11 honour conditional comments even when emulating Internet Explorer 8 document mode?

According to Jacob Rossi [MSFT] This should be fixed in Update 1 for IE11, released last week. That was posted on April 22, 2014. In running a few tests myself it does appear that this was fixed and all is running smoothly again for testing the most amazing browser ever produced…Internet Explorer!

<!–[if !IE]><!–><script src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13785587/zepto.min.js”></script><!–<![endif]–> <!–[if IE]><script src=”jquery-1.7.2.min.js”></script><![endif]–> Note: These conditional comments are no longer supported from IE 10 onwards.

How do I target only Internet Explorer 10 for certain situations like Internet Explorer-specific CSS or Internet Explorer-specific JavaScript code?

I wouldn’t use JavaScript navigator.userAgent or $.browser (which uses navigator.userAgent) since it can be spoofed. To target Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11 (Note: also the latest Chrome): @media screen and (min-width:0\0) { /* Enter CSS here */ } To target Internet Explorer 10: @media all and (-ms-high-contrast: none), (-ms-high-contrast: active) { /* IE10+ CSS … Read more

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