<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bfe2fac3-0715-4b17-b5da-0a88cfd9248c/AF505C09-0897-4649-9E77-BFE78079459E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack" href="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack" style="font-size: 11px;">www.noscope.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><H2 id="post-717"><A title="Permanent Link: Showing CSS to IE only (The Underscore Hack)" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack">Showing CSS to IE only (The Underscore Hack)</A> </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><P>It allows you to show <SPAN class="caps"><SPAN class="hilite">CSS</SPAN> </SPAN>to Internet Explorer <EM><SPAN class="hilite">only</SPAN></EM>, omitting Mozilla, Safari and Opera.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It allows you to write conditional <SPAN class="caps"><SPAN class="hilite">CSS</SPAN> </SPAN>directly in your stylesheet file, and doesn’t require inline styles</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It works for <SPAN class="hilite">IE</SPAN> 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s a hack</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It’s very simple to work with.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><PRE>body { background: green; /* show to Mozilla/Safari/Opera */ _background: red; /* show to <SPAN class="hilite">IE</SPAN> */ }</PRE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><H3>Cons</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The <SPAN class="caps"><SPAN class="hilite">CSS</SPAN> </SPAN>won’t <A href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.noscope.com/downloads/code/underscore-hack.html">validate</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/showing-css-to-ie-only-the-underscore-hack"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The hack won’t work for <SPAN class="caps">IE5</SPAN>/Mac. For this platform, I recommend the <A href="http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/"><SPAN class="caps">IE5</SPAN>/Mac Band Pass Filter hack</A></LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AF505C09-0897-4649-9E77-BFE78079459E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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