5 replies to this topic

[liquid486]

Coming from a coding background, I was wondering if there was any way to do something like this:

if (browser=IE) {
stylesheet=IE.css
}
else {
stylesheet=style.css
}

Any ideas?

[coolaid]

using php, it would be almost exactly like that. but more like

$browser = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

if($browser="MSIE"){
echo "IEstylesheet.css";
} else{
echo "stylesheet.css";
}

actually, come to think.. theres a way with just using clientside scripts.. let me look around...

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/styles/screen.css" />
<!--[if lte IE 5.5]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/styles/ie5.css" />
<![endif]-->

i never used that right above, but it uses conditional elements

[raenef]

Something like this: http://www.thesitewi...xcludecss.shtml perhaps?

[softLearner]

Check this out site out here. Yo ucan create a whole stylesheet in PHP and include just like a style sheet. This way you can have one style sheet, but it'll only output for the browser you're using.

It explais it better on the site. Its pretty cool.

[liquid486]

Thanks for the help, thats exactly what I was looking for. Why do people still use the box model hack and other css tricks when this seems to be much simpler...?

[softLearner]

SOme people may not be using PHP for their sites, or can't be bothered to code their styles in PHP etc.