Bernard wrote: > I am new to CSS and have been working with various layouts to get a feel > for and to learn using stylesheets. > Good plan. > One of the examples I started to experiment with are the Fixed Header > and Fixed Footer examples by Anne van Kesteren and Arthur Steiner > http://limpid.nl/lab/css/fixed/footer. I would like to know if there is > a way of achieving the same layout in IE without using Quirks mode. No, I do not think so. > I > use external stylesheets and would rather use the IE conditional > directive in the < head > tag to conditionally load an IE stylesheet. > You link an external style sheet from within conditional comments for ie specific hacks /regardless/ of whether the file is /or/ is not in quirksmode.
Make and link *two* external style sheets. The style sheet that contains styles for all browsers, including those style that even ie can handle goes in the head of the document. Name and save it: styles.css. And link it like so: <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> Directly beneath that insert and link the second external style sheet for those styles that are specific to ie. It /must/ be saved and named differently than the one above, perhaps name it: ie-styles.css. It is enclosed and linked from within the conditional comment, like so(notice it is named differently):| <!--[if lt IE 7]> |<link rel="stylesheet" href="ie-styles.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> |<![endif]--> |Assuming I did not make some horrendous error, this should work for you with Anne van Kesteren layout. > Is there a good source of information on what the differences in IE > markup vs. the rest of the browsers that would address this issue? > See(particularly the conditional comment part): http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html#hacks hth. Regards, ~davidLaakso-- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/ccs/pow/pow.html ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
