Style based on browser

[ddeile]

Hi,

How can I get a style sheet to load up based upon browser type?

The site I am currently working on displays as intended in IE6, NS6, and Opera 5. IE5 does not display the site as well and I would like to load up an IE5 specific stylesheet for users of the browser.

Thanks.

[ffeingol]

Is your site just HTML or PHP or ASP??

Different methonds depending on how it is coded.

Frank

[ddeile]

ffeingol,

The site is mostly html, with some php thrown in for file includes.

[ffeingol]

Here is an article from www.phpbuilder.com that gives an example of how to do it with PHP.

It's just one example.

Frank

[ddeile]

Thanks.

That link was pretty interesting.
While I'm sure I could figure it out (i'm not a php expert yet)I'd like to do something a bit simpler.

Any ideas? Thanks again for your help.

[arriya]

If you're really against doing a browser detection with server-side scripting, you could use JavaScript to do it. Mozilla has a little browser-detection script that you can download at http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-deve...wser_type.html. You could put a chunk of code that looks something like this in your head tags:

<script lanugage="JavaScript" type="text/css" src="filelocation.js">
<!--
if (is_nav4up || is_ie3up) {
document.write(<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="somefile.css">);
else {
document.write(<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="someotherfile.css">);
}
// Hide from older browsers -->
</script>

Please forgive any errors as I am not very experienced in using JavaScript.

Hope this helps and good luck!

[sccr410]

I know ESPN.COM uses this. Check their code to see how they did it. I always learn by looking at others code.

EDIT: actually, don't look at their code, it's chaos, hah

[Phil.Roberts]

Browser-sniffing methods are always going to be inherently flawed. Most modern browsers give users the option of spoofing their user-agent header, which would completly screw up and sniffer code. Also if you dont have Javascript enabled then a Jscript sniffer wont work at all.....