Ie6fixer. Welcome to the IE6 CSS Fixer: starter kit page. A tool specifically designed to ease the pain of the ie6 css debugger. If you want to read up on all the specifics, I advise you to check the articles on the ideology, the specific fixes and the scope of this tool. It is extremely important to note that this tool is not a miracle solution. This is not a 1-click-fix-all tool, nor is this a final version that will work flawlessy. This tool was concieved to decrease the monkey work when starting an ie6 css fix file. Even though the status of this tool is still experimental, it has already proven its worth.
10 Fixes That Solve IE6 Problems. We know IE is likely to be around for some time, but can we still support the browser and avoid hacks and conditional CSS? Here are 10 fixes to solve the majority of IE6 problems with valid HTML and CSS code… 1. Use a DOCTYPE You should always place a DOCTYPE at the top of every HTML page and a strict version is recommended, i.e. or, for XHTML: The last thing you need is IE6 going into quirks mode – it’s quirky enough already. 2. 3. 4. The easiest way to set hasLayout is to set a CSS height or width (zoom can also be used, but that is not part of the CSS standard). 5. Ensure all floated elements use display:inline;use a margin-right:-3px; on the last floated elementuse a conditional comment as the last item in the floated element, i.e.
<! See positioniseverything.net for a full description of the problem. 6. You should also use them for controls within JavaScript-powered widgets so they remain keyboard navigable. 7. Another option is to use advanced selectors, e.g. 8. 9. 10. On having layout — the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win. A work in progress. This version: Rev. 8 2008–11–16 Changelog Translations Table of contents Introduction A lot of Internet Explorer's rendering inconsistencies can be fixed by giving an element “layout.” HasLayout — A Definition “Layout” is an IE/Win proprietary concept that determines how elements draw and bound their content, interact with and relate to other elements, and react on and transmit application/user events.
This quality can be irreversibly triggered by some CSS properties. Microsoft developers decided that elements should be able to acquire a “property” (in an object-oriented programming sense) they referred to as hasLayout, which is set to true when this rendering concept takes effect. Nomenclature We speak of an element “gaining layout” or say that an element “has layout” when the Microsoft-proprietary property hasLayout is set to true for it.
In “non-layout” elements, hasLayout is not triggered, i.e. a pure div without a dimension can be a “non-layout ancestor”. Properties Lists. Le concept de hasLayout dans IE/Win. CSS Hacks. Dealing with browser inconsistencies often makes up a majority of the work for a web designer. Sometimes there is no reasonable way to accomplish a desired layout in all major web browsers without the use of some special exception rules for certain layout engines. Hacks necessarily lead to potential complications and should be avoided whenever possible, but when the circumstances require hacks to be used, it's best to know what your options are and weigh the consequences appropriately. The purpose of this article is to describe some of the CSS hacks, also called CSS filters, with the least significant potential consequences.
In-CSS hacks Up One of the drawbacks of conditional comments is that they require changes to the HTML source. Easy selectors Most in-CSS hacks deal with selector bugs. IE 6 and below * html {} IE 7 and below *:first-child+html {} * html {} IE 7 only *:first-child+html {} IE 7 and modern browsers only html>body {} Modern browsers only (not IE 7) Recent Opera versions 9 and below. Clearance. I recently revisited Alex Robinson’s One True Layout while preparing for an upcoming speaking gig for AIGA Baltimore. After playing with Any Order Columns I was still disappointed by the fragile nature of float-dependent layouts. One text size increase too far or an image too wide and bam! There goes the neighborhood. Even something as simple as italic text can cause floated columns to wrap in IE Win. I’ve never been completely satisfied with my method of clearing absolutely positioned elements either though. Rethinking the Problem Absolute positioning is by far the most reliable way to position something with CSS.
Regarding IE Win It’s worth noting that IE Win can act unreliably when the positioning context is a certain element (usually inline elements). Gotchas Unfortunately once we position those elements absolutely, they are taken out of the flow of the document and the containing element collapses. Absolutely Final (For Now) That’s just what the new SI.ClearChildren object does. CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & IE. While I strongly advise using hacks at a minimum especially when it comes to CSS there is a time and a place for them, especially when you need a quick way to target a browser other than Internet Explorer.
CSS Hacks: The Problem Most standards favoring browsers (Firefox, Opera & Safari) have no method of targeting CSS to the specific browser while Internet Explorer, the buggiest browser, has a completely safe and easy method of serving CSS/HTML to only IE. The Setup To show that the hacks are working correctly I created 6 paragraphs with their specific browser/version identifier within them. This will let you know that the hack is working correctly <p id="opera">Opera 7.2 - 9.5</p><p id="safari">Safari</p><p id="firefox">Firefox</p><p id="firefox12">Firefox 1 - 2 </p><p id="ie7">IE 7</p><p id="ie6">IE 6</p> Next I automatically hid all P tags: Targeting Internet Explorer With CSS Using Conditional Comments The easiest way to target IE is with conditional comments.
Targeting Firefox With CSS. DD_belatedPNG. 2011/4/8: This is no longer an actively maintained project. I apologize, I must move on with current events. This is a Javascript library that sandwiches PNG image support into IE6 without much fuss. You can use PNGs as the SRC of an <IMG/> element or as a background-image property in CSS. If you attempt the latter, you will find that, unlike with vanilla usage of AlphaImageLoader, background-position and background-repeat work as intended. As a bonus, "fixed" elements will respond to a commonly used set of Javascript style assignments, as well as the A:hover pseudo-class. Table of Contents Long story short, this uses Microsoft's implementation of VML instead of Microsoft's AlphaImageLoader filter. The intended implementation is pretty easy: Download a copy of the DD_belatedPNG Javascript file - please do not hotlink mine, I am on a shared host. Due to popular demand, here is some documentation for how to "fix" elements on a pick-and-choose basis.
(Based on the normal usage approach) CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer. The document is archived and information here might be outdated With each new release of Windows Internet Explorer, support for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard has steadily improved. Internet Explorer 6 was the first fully CSS, Level 1-compliant version of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 8 is fully compliant with the CSS, Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) specification and supports some features of CSS Level 3 (CSS3). Internet Explorer 9 adds even more support for many CSS3 modules.
Note It is important to remember that many CSS3 modules are still in the Working Draft or Last Call stages. Until they reach the Candidate Recommendation stage, they could change significantly. If your Web site targets browsers that include earlier versions of Internet Explorer, you want to know the level of CSS compliance for those versions. Note CSS features that are new to Internet Explorer 8 will only work when your page is rendered in IE8 mode (or higher). Lists. /* Position Is Everything */