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CSS

Posted by Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 Points

What is this?

What is that star?

.min__u--2-3 {
  width: 66.6667%;
  *width: 66.6357%;
}

What does it do? Why two width? What is this in general lol i just took this from a framework CSS.

Never seen this before.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

:point_right: It's an old trick for targeting IE browsers of version 7 and earlier.

Modern browsers consider that line a syntax error and ignore it. But IE7 and older use it as if the asterisk was not there, overriding the conventional setting.

Aurelian Spodarec
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 Points

People use IE6 below?