CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 « Smashing Magazine
If I ruled the world, IE would not be used by people. Since that is not the case, we need to put these rules to memory.
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Internet Explorer to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
This will hopefully kill IE6 and IE7 for good. The latest available IE for Windows XP is IE8 though.
CSS: Opacity is not inherited in Internet Explorer
Non-static elements will not inherit their parent's opacity in IE for no good reason. This can lead to unexpected behaviour when you want to fade/hide an element and all its children.
To fix it, give the parent element defining the opacity a non-...
Internet Explorer will download CSS files twice, if referenced via scheme-less URLs
You can use scheme-less URLs (or protocol-relative URLs) to have browsers use the current protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) when loading content referenced with such an URL.
A protocol relative URL doesn...
CSS3 Pie: Element not properly redrawn
Pie sometimes does not properly redraw elements upon changes. This often happens when the change comes from somewhere further up the DOM.
Consider something like:
<ul>
<li class="active"><div class="content">Act...
Limitations you should be aware of when Internet Explorer 9 parses CSS files
Internet Explorer until version 9 has some limitations when parsing CSS files
Summarized, these are:
- Up to 31 CSS files or
<style>tags per page. - Up to 4095 selectors per CSS file.
- Up to 3 ne...
IE9: Linear gradients remove border-radius and inset box-shadows
When you add a linear gradient to an element, IE9 removes all border-radius and inset box-shadows. This is because you probably are doing linear gradients with this weirdo Microsoft filter:
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradie...
Using Firebug Lite to inspect HTML in Internet Explorer and other browsers
You know Firebug as a Firefox extension but there is also a "Lite" version which runs purely off JavaScript.
Though all major browsers offer inspection tools you may like the Firebug style. Also, for me this is a lot better than the IE8 develop...
Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.