Re: IE compatible way of forcing footer to bottom of page?
- From: dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:41:25 +1000
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<745d70b4-4929-4902-9196-b183829928cd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dave Rado <dave.rado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi dorayme
On 30 Mar, 02:19, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The asterisk in css is a universal selector and ...
Thanks, that's useful to know.
The asterisk before the html element is an interesting case and it is
used to take advantage of what has appeared to almost everyone (except
me to a certain extent[2]) as a bad misconception of Internet Explorer
prior to version 7. ...
So is it okay for me to use * html in order to specify "applies only
to IE6 and below"? I read somewhere that it's unsafe to use because
although it validates, it's invalid, and future standards-compliant
browsers could conceivably stop ignoring it. What do you think? It
does have the huge advantage over IE conditional comments of being
usable within an external css file, so one doesn't need to import so
many css files if one uses it as one does if one uses conditional
comments.
The argument about future standards compliant browsers is hard to
assess. Anything about the future is. There is a lot of fickleness in
fate. There is no general good argument over whether to be an optimist
or a pessimist in life on earth. So I cannot help on this. I see only
into the deep heart of objective reality. And this heart says bugger all
about the matter.
I find it easy enough to add an IE sheet and conditionally link it in
the head of the html. Consider not having more than one (or two at most)
sheets before thinking about IE. An extra one or two then would not be
so bad. It is a nice clean policy. I recommend it to you. Now and then i
add something for IE in a conditional in the body of the html.
For example, the other day, I just could not remember all the tricks
about what does and does not trigger IE to do certain things and,
knowing it does not seem to respond in a normal way to overflow: hidden
(which served well to do something for all other modern browsers) I
chose to add a clearing div for IE6 in a conditional comment. Natually
it had to go in a specific place in the body of the html.
2. Because of my very deep studies into the mysteries of the html
element and beyond, I have caught glimpses of the Beyond that IE6 (and
lower) instinctively know about. In my case, I have had work hard in a
field that is unnatural to me. I wear a special black cape and a sort of
wizard's hat in my pursuit of what I am calling Root Studies.
In that case I hope you'll be willing to shed some light on some more
weird IE behaviour that I've just encountered (please don your cape
and wizard's hat before reading on. I could also lend you a broomstick
if you think that would help).
Just at the moment there are people around and I can't risk grabbing the
gear and using it. But if I get a moment...
(Please, not the broomstick, it will only give ideas to my enemies...)
--
dorayme
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