IE: how to switch to alternative CSS?

[[blu|shark]]

hi,

i've designed pages which have linked two different CSS files, so user can
select desired look. this works fine for Mozilla Firebird, i click the
status bar icon and select the style.
i was wondering, how do i switch CSS files from IE, IE 6 more specifically?

what is the lowest IE version that supports this?

thanks!

 

[Steve Pugh]

i've designed pages which have linked two different CSS files, so user can
select desired look. this works fine for Mozilla Firebird, i click the
status bar icon and select the style.
i was wondering, how do i switch CSS files from IE, IE 6 more specifically?

You can't. IE doesn't support alternate style sheets.

You can write a client and/or server side script that will toggle
between stylesheets based on user action within the page. This can
even remember which stylesheet to use between pages, which current
implementations of alternate stylesheets in Mozilla, etc, don't do.

what is the lowest IE version that supports this?

7? 8? 9? Take a guess.

Steve

 

[[blu|shark]]

You can't. IE doesn't support alternate style sheets.

i was afraid you'd say that.
thanks!

 

[Vladdy]

hi,

i've designed pages which have linked two different CSS files, so user can
select desired look. this works fine for Mozilla Firebird, i click the
status bar icon and select the style.
i was wondering, how do i switch CSS files from IE, IE 6 more specifically?

what is the lowest IE version that supports this?

thanks!

Among the few users of Mozilla browsers even less are aware what the
alternate stylesheets are and how to switch between them.
IE, as Steve said, does not support alternative stylesheets at all.
If this switch is important, you can implement it quite easily using
server side scripting. This will work with any browser that supports
stylesheets.
If the stylesheet switching is more of a convinience feature, client
side solutions are possible for Mozilla and IE6 (should be doable for
Opera 7, but I have not tested it): see customization wiget on my site.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

i've designed pages which have linked two different CSS files, so user can
select desired look.

In addition to Steve's excellent and correct answer, please take a look at:

"Alternate Stylesheets Considered Harmful (by me, for the time being)"
Message ID: <[email protected]>
Or from Google:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]