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Browsers and standards is an eternal pursuit. Because of discrepancies to standards and different ways of rendering of pages the largest part of the web designer time takes the smoothing down these discrepancies. As a result, instead of effective work, the designer enters unnatural relations with browsers, wasting precious time. In this article some css hacks (they are also called css-filters) which will help you to solve some problems of discrepancy of browsers are considered.

1. Box Model hack

Box Model hack is used to solve the problem of Explorer where border and padding are included into the width of the … read more

When using semantic coding each developer will necessarily face the problem of compatibility in different browsers. In most cases it is necessary to use “hacks” to solve these problems. Usually this means a special way of writing selectors or rules which would work only in a concrete browser. However compatibility with CSS in the majority of browsers has already reached the level when it is necessary to limit “hacks” usage.

Most often, a browser which has the biggest number of difficulties is Internet Explorer (more often - IE6). The variety of errors in CSS realization at this browser t surprises even the most skilled web-designers, and, in particular, slicers. That is why there are situations when it is necessary to use alternative rules for Internet Explorer, in similar cases it is recommended to apply “hacks”. If you would need to use alternative rules for Firefox only it is … read more