Expressing IT

A few months earlier we saw , how we could include a piece of CSS that would be visible to IE6 only(For your IEs Only ). There are other ways to achieve this as well. Simply include a separate CSS, specific to your target IE. this could be achieved with what is called as Conditional Comments.

Conditional Comments is a way to detect the browser type and version. Browser detection is performed to ensure that the content presented to the browser specific. Browser detection can be done using many different techniques. This method has several advantages over earlier methods, that included style switching using javascript. To list important few, would be;

• Scripting is not required
• Cross-browser

How do we do this?

Do something in IE 5 only
<!--[if IE 5]> Welcome to Internet Explorer 5. <![endif]-->

Do something in All IE versions
<!--[if IE]>
<link href="css/ie.css" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

Do something in All IE versions newer that IE 5
<!--[if gte IE 5]>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
alert("Congratulations! You are running Internet Explorer 5 or greater.");<br />
// --></script>
<![endif]-->

For more conditional vartiations , read this info on MSDN :
About Conditional Comment