Not working properly [ANSWERED]

<!–if !IE> Not working properly

Asked By: SalehK
Originally Asked On: 2014-01-07 03:34:05
Asked Via: stackoverflow

I’m almost done building my first official site and IE is being annoying. Every time i add

<!--[if !IE]><!-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c:UsersSalehDesktopAbidcssstylesheet.css" />
<!--<![endif]-->

to my head the website ‘breaks’ and IE stops reading the new stylesheet i created

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c:UsersSalehDesktopAbidcssstylesheet2.css">

and instead reads the stylesheet inside the if !IE.

1. Why?
2. How do I fix this?

*stylesheet2 is for IE and stylesheet is for all other browsers

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<!–if !IE> Not working properly

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Guffa’s answer to

<!–if !IE> Not working properly

With the !IE condition you should use tags that are not comments:

<![if !IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c:UsersSalehDesktopAbidcssstylesheet.css" />
<![endif]>

Reference: About conditional comments

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All Answers For: <!–if !IE> Not working properly

Guffa’s answer to

<!–if !IE> Not working properly

With the !IE condition you should use tags that are not comments:

<![if !IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c:UsersSalehDesktopAbidcssstylesheet.css" />
<![endif]>

Reference: About conditional comments

user3160799’s answer to

<!–if !IE> Not working properly

You are missing a closing a tag before the start of the <![endif]--> tag

<!--[if !IE]><!-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="c:UsersSalehDesktopAbidcssstylesheet.css" />
<!--><![endif]-->

skmasq’s answer to

<!–if !IE> Not working properly

I think your problem is that newer versions of IE don’t support conditional comments anymore as stated here

Support for conditional comments has been removed in Internet Explorer
10 standards and quirks modes for improved interoperability and
compliance with HTML5. This means that Conditional Comments are now
treated as regular comments, just like in other browsers. This change
can impact pages written exclusively for Windows Internet Explorer or
pages that use browser sniffing to alter their behavior in Internet
Explorer.

To fix this you can use this in <header> to emulate conditional comments.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE9">

Of course, you should really check out the original question.

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