Comments on: No Multiple-Class Support in IE6

By: Spencer Goldade

Spencer Goldade — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:44:51 +0000

There’s a Javascript library available from Google that was able to fix this problem for me. It also fixes a lot of other IE problems. A huge time saver rather than coding out separate stylesheets or styles for IE.

http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

By: Maurice

Maurice — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:21:00 +0000

Raz- And what helpful advice have you to share with us, today?

By: Raz

Raz — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:57:30 +0000

You’re all a bunch of noobs

By: nm2

nm2 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:28:15 +0000

menu a#menu1.selected, #menu a#menu1.current

By: nm2

nm2 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:26:28 +0000

Hey everybody,

I found a way to solve this problem, and it works fine here.

I have: menu a#menu1.selected,

menu a#menu1.current{

background: url('../images/btn_hov.jpg') no-repeat;

}

So obviously IE6 recognizes only the .curent class

I have included separate file for IE6 into the header: In this file I just repeat the code but only with the class that is being ignored: menu a#menu1.selected{

background: url('../images/btn_hov.jpg') no-repeat;

}

I hope that helps ;) Happy coding!

By: Tejus Pratap

Tejus Pratap — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:42:32 +0000

IE 6 expressions can be used for using multiple css classes. An example can be found in the following link. http://www.tejuspratap.com/main/content/using-multiple-css-classes-ie6

By: yareckon

yareckon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:57:37 +0000

IE6 takes the last class. .one.two.three is the same as .three

By: Sugarenia

Sugarenia — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:35:07 +0000

I think this only hurts when you specify the same property for both classes.

For example, if you set a background image on the first class and you overwrite it on the second. Then it will only load the first (or last, I’m not quite sure) one.

I think it works for different properties though.

The solution? Ugly but effective. Use one class (i.e. .img-center) instead of two (.img.center). Sigh.

By: Trey Piepmeier

Trey Piepmeier — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:17:38 +0000

It’s funny, I had never really used multiple-class (or even class + ID) until recently because I just assumed it didn’t work in IE 6. Luckily, several of the things I’ve been working on lately don’t necessarily have to work in IE 6. Livin’ in the future, baby!

My advice? Just patch IE 6 with jQuery.