I have a site that lloks great in FireFox, but there are a few things that need to be tweaked in IE. I've seen a bunch of sites that have done something with toeir code to make it work with IE. Is there a way I can make FireFox ignore this line {position:relative; left:3px;}?

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heres a hack that fixes ie and leavs all browsers normal (suposedly, but im having my doubts with opera):


* Is used to select all elements of the current level, but apparently, only Ie believes that theres an invisible element surrounding the root element (html) so the only browser that will read this as valid css is IE, and the coment lines before it work this way:

\ is used to scape a character so the browser doesnt take it as normal code but a chain of text, so its suposed to scape the * so the browser will believe that the next lines are still a comment, so this: \*/ is not actually a comment end for the current rule, its suposed to fix ie for mac, but im not totally sure i made some tests and some things work and somethings didnt, any way im not totally sure but it does work for ie 6 at least:D

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On another thread here at the trap, Tyssen warns that the presentation of html in IE is the suspect in a lot of cases.
In order to have the most widely acceptable code, he reccomends developing your site in Firefox and then inserting IE hacks. Most tutorials I have read at really good sites(ie: positioniseverything dot com, alistapart dot com) make the same point.
You are trying to go the other way around and it will be more difficult to get firefox to 'mis-behave' since it is a standards compliant browser.

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I don't know what you all mean about develop for FF and trick IE later, and then tell me that that isn't what I'm doing. Because to the best of my knowledge that is what I'm doing, cause my site works exactly how I want it to in FireFox, but there is an image that is 3 pixels to the left in IE and I simply want it to display the same in IE as it already does in FireFox. That sounds to me like I'm developing for FireFox and trying to trick IE. Anyway thanks to Lozbo I will try that and post back with the results.
*** edit --- added the following line --- edit ***
Thanks a lot Lozbo, that worked, at least for the time being.

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Sounds like IE's 3-pixel jog.

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Right, anytime pal! glad to know i could help the good people of this forum

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