Comments on: Using “If” In CSS: Conditional-CSS

By: denbagus

denbagus — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:14:34 +0000

wow… nice tool thank you

By: Alexandre Broggio (Brasil)

Alexandre Broggio (Brasil) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:24:10 +0000

Thanks ^_^

By: john

john — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:06:03 +0000

I didn’t really elaborate above.. but to those who don’t realize it the ‘expressions’ above that provide the conditional statements are actually javascript.

Why would you ever put javascript inside css especially when it can easily be CASCADED to MANY html tags on the page without you even realizing? It has disaster written all over it. You may get away with doing it for a while… but it eventually bites you in the rear.

By: john

john — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:02:13 +0000

I tried this once and ended up with severe cpu use by my browser after adding a large number (hundreds) of elements to the page which had to be parsed by the javascript in the css above.
Please, avoid; it just bad design and took me an eternity to diagnose as the problem.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:11:23 +0000

Yep to John and Dan.

By: CoryMathews

CoryMathews — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:30:09 +0000

This seems like the lazy way out of learning to write good css. Like john said you should only need a new style sheet for ie6. And very very seldome one for ie7. But still pretty cool none the less.

By: John

John — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:28:13 +0000

Amen to Dan. Plus, if you use an alternate style sheet just for IE6 (which should be the only thing you need it for), you will save on dl time for other browsers.

By: Shrewdy

Shrewdy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:21:39 +0000

I gotta think that conditional CSS is like reinventing the wheel and all together more pointless but there are bound to be some “Conditional Fanbois” out there that will tell me I am missing the point or just “don’t get it”.

Well, that was my $0.02 (£0.04 after an extortionate amount of tax levied by the UK Government)

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:19:18 +0000

conditional comments already do this, and if you really need ifs inside your css, why not use php? neither of those options require you to install software on your server.