CDATA dealing with browser CSS bugs?

Jeremy Clulow

Hi

I was looking at the source code of a site which had the code below in the
<head> section.

Could someone please explain whether this is a known and effective way of
compensating for browser CSS bugs, and if so, how it works?

Thanks,

Jeremy Clulow

<style type="text/css" media="screen">

 </style>




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Jul 20 '05 #1

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Martin Honnen

Jeremy Clulow wrote:

I was looking at the source code of a site which had the code below in the
<head> section.

Could someone please explain whether this is a known and effective way of
compensating for browser CSS bugs, and if so, how it works?

A CDATA section is an XML construct, if you find it in a HTML page then
probably as someone tries to author XHTML. If you find it in the
complicated way you have posted then someone probably tries to author
XHTML that can be sent to HTML user agents with content type text/html.
As that is all tedious, cumbersome and error-prone it is usually best to
simply author HTML 4.01 and not XHTML 1.0, see
http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
for instance.

I don't think a CDATA section helps to hide CSS from certain browsers.

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Jul 20 '05 #2

Jeremy Clulow

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:55:11 +0100, Martin Honnen <ma*******@yaho o.de>
wrote:

|| I don't think a CDATA section helps to hide CSS from certain browsers.

Thanks for that. I won't bother trying to work out hwo it works then ;-)

Jeremy
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Jul 20 '05 #3

Nick Kew

In article <3f************ ***********@new sread2.arcor-online.net>, one of infinite monkeys
at the keyboard of Martin Honnen <ma*******@yaho o.de> wrote:

A CDATA section is an XML construct,

That wasn't a CDATA section. It was a hack inside a comment.
It's commented out in all possible languages - HTML, XHTML and CSS.

So, we conclude that if it means anything at all, it's a hack to deal
with bugs in some browser. The remaining quoted material suggests
that the browser in question is probably MSIE. In any case, the
original question stands.

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Jul 20 '05 #4

Michael Bauser

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Jeremy Clulow wrote:

Hi

I was looking at the source code of a site which had the code below
in the <head> section.

Could someone please explain whether this is a known and effective
way of compensating for browser CSS bugs, and if so, how it works?

Those are Internet Explorer "conditiona l comments". They're a
Microsoft-only hack:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...w/ccomment_ovw.
asp

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Jul 20 '05 #5

Jeremy Clulow

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:14:42 -0500, Michael Bauser <mi*****@bauser .com>
wrote:
|| Those are Internet Explorer "conditiona l comments". They're a
|| Microsoft-only hack:
||
|| http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...w/ccomment_ovw.
|| asp

Thanks for that. It looks interesting.

Jeremy

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Jul 20 '05 #6

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