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!
Responses
Thanks. Worked like a charm for IE.
Now i just need to sort out my firefox issues 🙂
Glad it worked for you!
helped me too – thanks!
Thanks for this as well!
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
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.
Thanks much!
Very helpful. Thanks for posting this!
Great, thanks a lot! It works fine!
It actually helped ! thx
This change was driving me bonkers. Thanks so much for the help!
Doesn’t work any longer. 🙁
@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!