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Feed different CSS rules to IE5.0, 5.5 and 6.0 (See related posts)

Sometimes you just have to resort to the hacks; this bit of code will let you feed three separate values for the same property to each of the three common flavors of IE on Windows:

* html whatevertherestofyourselectorwouldbe {
property/**/: value;
property: /**/ value;
p\roperty: value;
}


The first value will be applied by IE5.5, the second by IE5.0 and the third by IE6.0. The order is important; mix them up and it won't work. The "* html" on the selector ensures that only IE on Windows will see any of the values (since it mistakenly thinks there's a higher root element above html).

This was constructed from the table of CSS hacks at dithered.
to css by ubernostrum on Sat May 28 03:32:22 +0000 2005

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Reid posts on May 28, 2005 at 14:27
And if you want to then pass specific values to Mac/IE (because it has its own oddities separate from Windows/IE), add this at the end of the above:
/* for IE5/Mac */
*>html .selector {
prop\erty: value
}

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