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IE6 blues

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It’s one if the most common problems with the old internet explorer that it handles the box model in a wrong way and I have been cursing for hours due to that problem. To be able to do some workarounds, Microsoft offers browser switching for their browser (IE only) for loading different stylesheets:

<!--[if IE 6]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/only_ie6.css" type="text/css" /> <![endif]-->
The common syntax for switching works that way:
IE -> Any version of IE lt IE version -> Versions less than version lte IE version->Versions less than or equal to version IE version -> Only version version gte IE version -> Versions greater than or equal to version gt IE version -> Versions greater than version

version is the version of Internet Explorer, typically 5, 5.5, 6, or 7

But there’s a lesser known way of fixing IE problems which is excluding stylesheets for different IE versions. Let’s have a look at an example:

<!--[if !lt IE 7]><![IGNORE[--><![IGNORE[]]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/not_ie6.css" type="text/css" /> <!--<![endif]-->

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