child selector not working on ie ?

[Chris Sharman]

See http://services.ccagroup.co.uk/testform.htm

Looks as intended in firefox, is valid (bulk of inputs centred in a div
occupying the left half of the page).

ie ignores the child selector, positioning everything aligned left.

I'm familiar with http://w3development.de/css/hide_css_from_browsers/
I thought the ie child selector bug only occurred where there were no
spaces (parent>child) - I'd thought it worked when there were (parent >
child).
Apparently not - or am I missing something ?
http://services.ccagroup.co.uk/testform2.htm (&css) are identical apart
from the omission of ">".

Chris

[David Dorward]

Chris Sharman wrote:

ie ignores the child selector, positioning everything aligned left.
Yes. IE doesn't support selectors introduced in CSS 2.
I thought the ie child selector bug only occurred where there were no
spaces (parent>child) - I'd thought it worked when there were (parent >
child).

I have a feeling that if there are spaces then it might treat it like a
descendent selector - but don't quote me on that.

I think Dean Edward's script will hack child selector support into IE.
Another option is:

foo bar { /* Set */ }
foo * bar { /* Reset to status before setting */ }

[Chris Sharman]

David Dorward wrote:

Chris Sharman wrote:

ie ignores the child selector, positioning everything aligned left.

Yes. IE doesn't support selectors introduced in CSS 2.

Ah. OK. http://w3development.de/css/hide_css_from_browsers/ could
probably do with clarifying then - it misled me.

I thought the ie child selector bug only occurred where there were no
spaces (parent>child) - I'd thought it worked when there were (parent >
child).

I have a feeling that if there are spaces then it might treat it like a
descendent selector - but don't quote me on that.

Doesn't seem to.
I can work around it - just need to be careful with precedence.

Thanks
Chris