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How good is IE7? I was wondering about that today as I reloaded it to do another batch of bug fixing. The proof may be in your CSS pudding.
We are using conditional comments to import either ie6.css or ie7.css to control our hacks.

<! –[if IE 7]>

<link href=“/css/ie7.css” type=“text/css” rel=“stylesheet” media=“all”/>

<![endif]–>

<! –[if lte IE [...]

I’m doing some IE7 hacking and was wondering what was going on with some of my sprites. They look fine in all of the browsers except IE7. For that lovely browser, I say with my teeth clinched, I’m getting really strange results. At first I thought it was a hasLayout issue, that I needed [...]

I’ve played around with IE7 for a while, but haven’t really started debugging with it until now. Fortunately, I’ve already set up the site to use conditional comments and deliver an IE6.css file and a separate IE7.css file. This has made it much easier to target the offending areas of the site.
IE7 has had [...]

Hedger Wang responded to my desperate plea for help on the z-index issue with a simple test page on his blog with an ingenious iframe solution. How people imagine these solutions is simply beyond me. So, then I started going through his blog and was blown away by his tests and solutions. CSS, [...]

Internet Explorer 6 has an issue with positioned elements that use z-index. Here’s the trouble I just had with this:
I have a topnav consisting of an unordered list with a dropdown menu on one of the list elements. The dropdown is a nested unordered list with position:absolute and a z-index to sit on top [...]




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