IE CSS hack troubles

[sixrfan]

how come the IE 6 specific hack i have in place is also being applied in regular IE 8?

thanks in advance!

<link href="../style_sheets/pt_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<!–-[if IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../style_sheets/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<![endif]–->

[seco]

cause <!–-[if IE 6]> isnt a hack.

try

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
    css link here
<![endif]-->

[sixrfan]

i tried that too. here's what i have now;

<!–-[if lte IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../style_sheets/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<![endif]–->

however, it's effecting IE 8. any idea why???? thanks.

[SB65]

Got a link to your page?

[sixrfan]

PM sent with URL.

actually it gets even more bizarre. apparently its effecting Firefox as well?!

any ideas? thanks!

[SB65]

Weirdest of the day...

It's your if statement: <!–-[if lte IE 6]>

If you look closely, the first dash after the exclamation mark isn't a dash - it's another character - so the statement isn't being interpreted as a comment/conditional for IE - so everything including IE8 and Firefox is using the ie.css.

Hard to spot - I pasted into DW and it looked identical to a correctly formatted statement - although DW highlighted it as an error. Had to paste into Word before I could see the difference....

[abduraooft]

If you look closely, the first dash after the exclamation mark isn't a dash - it's another character

Brilliant! both you and the OP

[sixrfan]

friggin brilliant catch. i would not have spotted that or even known to spot it in a million years. thank you!