How Do You Fix Internet Explorer 6 Compatibility Issues In CSS?
Web developers have long known that Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has some glaring compatibility problems when it comes to cascading style sheets, one of the most famous being the way it interprets the width of boxed items. These kinks have been ironed out in later Explorer releases, but as of December 2009, IE6 still accounted for 21 percent of all browsers in use. Fortunately, there is special code you can use to instruct IE6 to use a separate style sheet, external or internal. This way, you can be sure your pages look the same in IE6 as they do in more CSS-compatible browsers. Step 1 Use a text editor to open the HTML page whose code needs fixing for compatibility issues. Step 2 Place your cursor between the
and tags. You will want to enter the new code below any links to external style sheets and any internal style sheet defined in the tags. Step 3 Type the following code: Because this block of code begins and ends the same way as a reg