CSS Question * html div...

G

Guest

Hello,

I´ve a question about CSS.
What does the following TAG-definition mean:

* html div#main{

}

In general... what means "* html" before the div#main definition?


Bye,
Martin
 
E

Els

Martin said:
Hello,
Hi,

I´ve a question about CSS.
What does the following TAG-definition mean:

* html div#main{

}

In general... what means "* html" before the div#main definition?
Click to expand...

Just the * stands for 'any element', so for instance div#main *{...}
would apply to any element inside div#main.

IE doesn't understand that there are no elements higher up in the
document than <html>, so the writer of that line uses that to feed a
set of property values to IE only. Only works on IE5 and 6 -
IE7(beta2) doesn't apply the rule.
 
J

Jonathan N. Little

Martin said:
Hello,

I´ve a question about CSS.
What does the following TAG-definition mean:

* html div#main{

}

In general... what means "* html" before the div#main definition?
Click to expand...

Since HTML is the root element with real web browsers it means nothing,
but IE will parse the definition, so it is used as an IE only CSS hack.
 

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