What is the name of this hack?

...
width:202px;
*width:200px;
...

The setting with * only can be read by IE, but I want to know...

1. What is the name of this hack?
2. Is all attribute can be combined with a star so only IE will know?

Thanks.

re: What is the name of this hack?

In article
<622fc4e6-1fb7-4003-860c-a81f8ba201d9@a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
howa <howachen@gmail.comwrote:
star (html) hack
* html body {margin: 200px;}

is seen by IE 6 but not by other browsers. All that IE would recognise
normally (without the star hack) is recognised by IE with the star hack,
it is just that other browsers won't see it.

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dorayme

re: What is the name of this hack?

Hi,

dorayme wrote:I am referring to the attributes, not the selector, are they the same?

Thanks.

re: What is the name of this hack?

howa wrote:http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/

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Berg

re: What is the name of this hack?

In article
<ab323553-8f8b-49a6-b04c-622f6e298a59@d10g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
howa <howachen@gmail.comwrote:
First things first. How did I go on answering your number 1 question?
Did I go OK in your eyes? Do I get a pass on that one? If I was
surrounded by a gang of thugs and you were passing by, would you
remember my answer to Number 1 and tell the thugs not to beat me too
severely?

As for your second question, why don't you rewrite it in a proper
grammatical sentence.

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dorayme

re: What is the name of this hack?

On 18 Nov, 04:05, howa <howac...@gmail.comwrote:Parsing error.
Microsoft recommends conditional comments.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/10/12/480242.aspx

re: What is the name of this hack?

On Nov 19, 4:50*am, "Roy A." <royarnes...@gmail.comwrote:This is also what I want.

But it only work as if defined in the HTML page, not in the css file.

So I am looking at some hacks.

Thanks anyway.

re: What is the name of this hack?

On Nov 18, 9:39*pm, Bergamot <berga...@visi.comwrote:Thanks.

This is what I want.

re: What is the name of this hack?

"howa" <howachen@gmail.comwrote in messageDon't use hacks.

Split your IE fixes out into a separate CSS file and do this in a the HTML:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie.css" />
<![endif]-->

re: What is the name of this hack?

In article
<b3c4e8c5-2c57-4a50-aeda-050edf9c89a8@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
howa <howachen@gmail.comwrote:
But the effect can be to let IE only see some CSS, namely by getting IE
to go to a particular special CSS file.

<!--[if IE]>
* <style type="text/css"/>
* ... your IE rules here ...
* </style>');
<![endif]-->

or

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

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dorayme

re: What is the name of this hack?

howa wrote:I should mention that knowing about such a list is not an endorsement of anything on it. The only one I ever use myself is *html, and then very sparingly.

Best not to use any at all, if possible. Including conditional comments.

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Berg

re: What is the name of this hack?

Bergamot wrote:
Is it just me? Most links on that page (click on one of the brown items
in the leftmost columns, for example) are dead.

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Bart.