Certain order for Conditional Comments?

[kade119]

on my site i need a css file for ie and ie7 specified... but the ie7 overrrides the ie css when im using ie6 browser... why does it do that? b/c i dont need the margins that the ie7 file is providing...

[Shadowfiend]

Your conditional comment should be specified in such a way that IE6 won't see it if it's only for IE7.

[kade119]

well can IE6 see this



<!--[if IE7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie7.css" />
<![endif]-->


it shouldn't.. right??

[kade119]

well when i do one for IE in general and do another one for IE7


the general IE overrides my ie7 margins.. why is that?

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


<!--[if IE7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie7.css" />
<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie6.css" />
<![endif]-->

and ie7 is displaying w/ the margins of ie6.... damnit! hah..

who can solve it first... hmmmm ?

[mlseim]

I'm not sure about this idea ... but try doing this (adding a space character) ...

<!--[if IE 6]>

instead of this:

<!--[if IE6]>

=============

Also try this and see what happens (for testing) ...

<!--[if IE 5]>
<p>This message is only displayed in IE5.</p>
<![endif]-->

<!--[if !IE 5]>
<p>This message is only displayed in browsers other than IE5.</p>
<![endif]-->

<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<p>This message is only displayed in browsers earlier than IE7.</p>
<![endif]-->

<!--[if gte IE 6]>
<p>This message is only displayed in IE6 and greater.</p>
<![endif]-->

[kade119]

none of them work.. this doesn't make sense...

[kade119]

okay guys this is weird... its something to do w/ testing it on multiple IE's on the same computer i think.. b/c i just tested on IE6 on another computer that doesn't have IE7 and it looked fine...

u ever heard of anything like this?

[mlseim]

oh ... that could be it.

Even though you have several browser revisions loaded,
the "main" browser detected in the registry would be
the original installation (IE7.0?) That sort of makes sense.

I experienced the same thing with a computer that had
both IE6.0 and FF ... the browser detection was always IE6.0.

Now, you tweaked my curiosity and I need to check it out myself.

[kade119]

hah ... "I" tweaked mlseims curiousty.. i feel honored

hey what about the <iframe> post the one below this... takea look at

http://www.kreativ.cn/portfolio.html in IE again its almost there

[mlseim]

doh! of course conditionals only work for IE (not FF).

I found this PHP approach to browser detection, but the author
feels that detection is hit-or-miss anyhow.
http://apptools.com/phptools/browser/index.php

Looking at your page with IE ...

Looks nice, even with the black instead of the background image ... hardly noticeable.

With IE, there is a border around the frame.
You might want to see this:
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40...al/iframe.html

I don't know if you see the border, so I attached a screenshot (IE6.0).