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bcWeb
bcWeb

Reputation: 961

Why isn't my IE6 Conditional stylesheet not working?

This is driving me nuts. I'm trying to use a conditional IE6 stylesheet. I posted this test page here. Here is the code I placed in my head tags:

<!--[if IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie6.css" />
<![endif]-->

The ie6.css should set the body background to red when viewed in IE6.

What's wrong here? I'm sure it's something dumb. Could someone please point it out to me?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1436

Answers (4)

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 1

I just had a similiar issue. The conditional comments did not work correctly and I tried everything. The issue was that I had an X UA compatible meta tag in the header which obviuously influences the rendering. So keep watching out for that because that can be a reason.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

Upvotes: 0

pixeltocode
pixeltocode

Reputation: 5308

is the CSS file in the root folder (same folder as the HTML) ? it's good practice to put your CSS in a separate folder. 

<!--[if IE 6]><link href="css/ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><![endif]-->

Upvotes: 0

Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 449465

You don't happen to be trying this using IETester?

Because with IETester, Conditional Comments will always resolve to the highest installed version of IE.

Upvotes: 2

Jimmy
Jimmy

Reputation: 37081

It works fine for me. Run your test page through IE NetRenderer and you'll see the red background. Perhaps you're testing it in a version of IE other than 6?

Upvotes: 2

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