Note This no longer works. I use their Profile 2.0 now anyway.
Today I noticed that my MySpace profile looked awful in Internet Explorer. I recently changed some stuff in my profile but didn’t touch my custom CSS. However, after looking through the code, I discovered the problem: MySpace is now scrubbing out “<!” from my profile.
This is bad, because I make use of Internet Explorer’s conditional comments to hide some CSS from the browser. Basically, I was using this:
<![if !IE]>
<style>
.yourStylesHere { font-weight: bold; }
</style>
<![endif]>
Now, the “<!” bit is replaced with “..“, making the conditional statement worthless and exposing IE to what it shouldn’t be seeing.
After some research, I found that the IE-only tag <comment> works just as well as the conditional comment I used before. By simply replacing the conditional tags with the <comment> tag, everything worked great in Internet Explorer (even IE 7).
Now I have:
<comment>
<style>
.yourStylesHere { font-weight: bold; }
</style>
</comment>
This works great. I hope this helps someone!
13 Comments, Comment or Ping
branden
Thanks. Worked like a charm for IE.
Now i just need to sort out my firefox issues
Feb 1st, 2007
Reid
Glad it worked for you!
Feb 1st, 2007
kris
helped me too - thanks!
Feb 5th, 2007
Geoff
Thanks for this as well!
Feb 7th, 2007
Dav Glass
Hey Reid –
Long time no hear
Just a note that you can do this inside the style tag:
This will take effect in IE6 and IE7
.yourStylesHere { *font-weight: bold; }
This will take effect in only IE6
.yourStylesHere { _font-weight: bold; }
This statement would make the box 200px in FF, Safari & Opera, 201px in IE6 and 202px in IE7
.yourStylesHere {
width: 200px;
*width: 201px;
_width: 202px;
}
Doing it this way makes your css easier to read
Hope you enjoy the new macBook, I can’t wait until Y! issues me one
Dav
Feb 14th, 2007
Slaphead Media LLC
Hello great! I thought no one would have an answer to this sudden change in the MySpace allowed code list lol.
Incidentally I really don’t see what the threat to the system it was but cheers!
With Regards,
Nicholas Sinclair,
Slaphead Media LLC.
Feb 15th, 2007
ejk
Thanks much!
Feb 15th, 2007
N. Clark
Very helpful. Thanks for posting this!
Feb 18th, 2007
Passi
Great, thanks a lot! It works fine!
Feb 23rd, 2007
James aka MNHIP
It actually helped ! thx
Mar 4th, 2007
Denise
This change was driving me bonkers. Thanks so much for the help!
Mar 30th, 2007
Nick
Doesn’t work any longer.
Oct 27th, 2008
Reid
@Nick
Yes, this broke a few months back when they started scrubbing the comment tag. I’ve given up on styling and use Profile 2.0 on my profile. Good luck!
Oct 27th, 2008
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