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TEAM LinG 01_579851 ffirs.qxd 5/4/05 10:55 PM Page i CSS Hacks and Filters Making Cascading Style Sheets Work TEAM LinG 01_579851 ffirs.qxd 5/4/05 10:55 PM Page ii TEAM LinG 01_579851 ffirs.qxd 5/4/05 10:55 PM Page iii CSS Hacks and Filters Making Cascading Style Sheets Work Joseph Lowery TEAM LinG 01_579851 ffirs.qxd 5/4/05 10:55 PM Page iv CSS Hacks and Filters:Making Cascading Style Sheets Work Published by Wiley Publishing,Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis,IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing,Inc.,Indianapolis,Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing,Inc.,Indianapolis,Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN 13: 978-0-7645-7985-1 ISBN 10: 0-7645-7985-1 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1B/ST/QV/QV/IN No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic, mechanical,photocopying,recording,scanning or otherwise,except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act,without either the prior written permission of the Publisher,or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center,222 Rosewood Drive,Danvers,MA 01923,(978) 750-8400,fax (978) 646-8600.Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department,Wiley Publishing,Inc.,10475 Crosspoint Blvd.,Indianapolis,IN 46256,(317) 572-3447,fax (317) 572-4355,or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. 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TEAM LinG 01_579851 ffirs.qxd 5/4/05 10:55 PM Page v About the Author Joseph Loweryis the author of the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Bible(Indianapolis,IN,Wiley Publishing,2004) and the Fireworks MX Bible(Indianapolis,IN:Wiley Publishing,2002), aswell as Design and Deploy(San Francisco:Macromedia Press,2004) and Joseph Lowery’s Beyond Dreamweaver (Berkeley,CA:New Riders Press,2002).In recent years,he co-authored Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes(Berkeley,CA:New Riders Press,2003) with Eric Ott and the Dreamweaver MX Killer Tipsbook (Berkeley,CA:New Riders Press,2003) with Angela Buraglia.His books are international bestsellers,having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in nine different languages.As a programmer,he has developed numerous extensions for the Dreamweaver community,both free and commercial,including FlashBang! and Deva Tools for Dreamweaver.He also has presented at MacDesign in Chicago,Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco,and Macromedia MAX conferences in the U.S.and Europe. TEAM LinG 01_579851 ffirs.qxd 5/4/05 10:55 PM Page vi Credits Executive Editor Vice President and Publisher Chris Webb Joseph B.Wikert Development Editor Project Coordinator Kevin Shafer Erin Smith Technical Editor Graphic and Layout Technicians Mark Fletcher Lauren Goddard Jennifer Heleine Production Editor Melanee Prendergast Gabrielle Nabi Amanda Spagnuolo Julie Trippetti Copy Editor Kim Cofer Quality Control Technicians Laura Albert Editorial Manager John Greenough Mary Beth Wakefield Joe Niesen Vice President & Executive Group Proofreading and Indexing Publisher TECHBOOKS Production Services Richard Swadley TEAM LinG 01_579851 ffirs.qxd 5/4/05 10:55 PM Page vii To the hundreds ofCSS explorers who have charted this rough new terrain with unflinching vigilance and unwavering selflessness. TEAM LinG 01_579851 ffirs.qxd 5/4/05 10:55 PM Page viii TEAM LinG 02_579851 ftoc.qxd 5/4/05 11:05 PM Page ix Contents at a Glance Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Chapter 1:Why Hack CSS?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2:Filtering CSS for Older Browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Chapter 3:Hiding CSS from Newer Browsers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chapter 4:Applying Conditional Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Chapter 5:Scripting JavaScript and Document Object Model Hacks. . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Chapter 6:Coding Server-Side Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Chapter 7:Enhancing Graphics and Media with CSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Chapter 8:Maintaining Accessibility with CSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Chapter 9:Integrated CSS Hack Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Chapter 10:Building Navigation Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Chapter 11:Troubleshooting CSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Chapter 12:Implementing CSS Hacks in Dreamweaver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Chapter 13:Creating CSS-Savvy Dreamweaver Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Appendix A:Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Appendix B:CSS Hacks and Filters Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 TEAM LinG