Using IE conditional comments inside a stylesheet

Question

I know that you can use an IE conditional comment inside HTML:

Answer 1

Conditional comments work in Internet Explorer 9 and below, but are ignored by Internet Explorer 10 and up. You can use Internet Explorer specific CSS rules in your stylesheet. Hacks? Yeah, but not really dirty hacks imho.

To target Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10 and 11, you can use:

@media screen\0 {…}

To target Internet Explorer 6 and 7, you can use:

@media screen\9 {…}

Source: https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/moving-ie-specific-css-into-media-blocks/media-tests/

It worked for me. I have not had time to test it in different browsers. If you can confirm it works (or not), please add some comments (with the browser you tested it in.)

Example:

/* Default CSS rule for all browsers */

span.icon {
	width: 16px;
	display: inline-block;
	margin-right: -16px;
}

/* Style rules in the media rules below will only be applied in Internet Explorer */
/* Other browsers will ignore them. */  

@media screen\0, @media screen\9 {	
  span.icon {
    margin-right: 8px;
	}	
}

--- Nothing to see here. Only CSS rules ---

A complete example:

span.icon {
	width: 16px;
	display: inline-block;
	margin-right: -16px;
}

/* Style rules in the media rules below will only be applied in Internet Explorer, other browsers will ignore them. */  

@media screen\0, @media screen\9 {	

	/* Style rules here will only be applied in Internet Explorer, other browsers will ignore them. */ 
	
	span.icon {
   		margin-right: 8px;
	}	
}


/* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

a.icon {
	-webkit-padding-start: 1.5em;
	text-decoration: none;
}

a.icon:hover {
	text-decoration: underline;
}

span.icon_file {
	background : url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAIAAACQkWg2AAAABnRSTlMAAAAAAABupgeRAAABHUlEQVR42o2RMW7DIBiF3498iHRJD5JKHurL+CRVBp+i2T16tTynF2gO0KSb5ZrBBl4HHDBuK/WXACH4eO9/CAAAbdvijzLGNE1TVZXfZuHg6XCAQESAZXbOKaXO57eiKG6ft9PrKQIkCQqFoIiQFBGlFIB5nvM8t9aOX2Nd18oDzjnPgCDpn/BH4zh2XZdlWVmWiUK4IgCBoFMUz9eP6zRN75cLgEQhcmTQIbl72O0f9865qLAAsURAAgKBJKEtgLXWvyjLuFsThCSstb8rBCaAQhDYWgIZ7myM+TUBjDHrHlZcbMYYk34cN0YSLcgS+wL0fe9TXDMbY33fR2AYBvyQ8L0Gk8MwREBrTfKe4TpTzwhArXWi8HI84h/1DfwI5mhxJamFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC ") left top no-repeat;
}

span.icon_dir {
	background : url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAd5JREFUeNqMU79rFUEQ/vbuodFEEkzAImBpkUabFP4ldpaJhZXYm/RiZWsv/hkWFglBUyTIgyAIIfgIRjHv3r39MePM7N3LcbxAFvZ2b2bn22/mm3XMjF+HL3YW7q28YSIw8mBKoBihhhgCsoORot9d3/ywg3YowMXwNde/PzGnk2vn6PitrT+/PGeNaecg4+qNY3D43vy16A5wDDd4Aqg/ngmrjl/GoN0U5V1QquHQG3q+TPDVhVwyBffcmQGJmSVfyZk7R3SngI4JKfwDJ2+05zIg8gbiereTZRHhJ5KCMOwDFLjhoBTn2g0ghagfKeIYJDPFyibJVBtTREwq60SpYvh5++PpwatHsxSm9QRLSQpEVSd7/TYJUb49TX7gztpjjEffnoVw66+Ytovs14Yp7HaKmUXeX9rKUoMoLNW3srqI5fWn8JejrVkK0QcrkFLOgS39yoKUQe292WJ1guUHG8K2o8K00oO1BTvXoW4yasclUTgZYJY9aFNfAThX5CZRmczAV52oAPoupHhWRIUUAOoyUIlYVaAa/VbLbyiZUiyFbjQFNwiZQSGl4IDy9sO5Wrty0QLKhdZPxmgGcDo8ejn+c/6eiK9poz15Kw7Dr/vN/z6W7q++091/AQYA5mZ8GYJ9K0AAAAAASUVORK5CYII= ") left top no-repeat;
}

span.icon_up {
	background : url("data:image/png;base64,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 ") left top no-repeat;
	
}

.nowrap {
  white-space: nowrap ;
}

div.fileList {
	padding: 20px;
}

html, body {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;    
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

table.FileList {
    border-collapse: collapse;
    margin: 20px;
  }

  table.FileList th {
    text-align: left;
    font-weight: bold;
  }
  
  table.FileList td {
    border: 0px solid #000;
  }
  
table.FileList tr.heading{
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}

        
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