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How do I make a website that can recognize a browser and change its format accordingly?

  • I have developed a website for a business and it looks fine in Chrome and Firefox, but its off in internet explorer. Its left justified and a slide show that I have embedded isn't appearing. I can fix those problems, but not without ruining the format in the other two browsers. Is there a way I can have my website recognize the browser that is viewing it and change its format to what I have specified for that browser? Or is there a way to at least redirect to a new page that is formatted for that browser?

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    For that you have to add conditional comments to your html. Conditional comments only work in IE, and give special instructions meant only for IE. They are supported from IE 5 onwards. For example: <!--[if IE 6]> Special instructions for IE here <![endif]--> Their basic structure is the same as an HTML comment (<!-- -->). Therefore all other browsers will see them as normal comments and will ignore them entirely. IE, though, has been programmed to recognize the special <!--[if IE]> syntax, resolves the if and parses the content of the conditional comment as if it were normal page content.

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In internet explorer you can use if statements in the header to use a specific style sheet. http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

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