An update on selector support

We’ve recently been writing some software for a client that only needs to be accessible on IE7 and Firefox and so I thought I would take the opportunity to use a few selectors that lack of IE6 support would usually prohibit me from doing.

With the advent of IE7 you can now use the child, sibling and attribute selectors – as well as a few others.While IE6 still has a large market share it’s not advisable to use these methods for the core functionality of your site, but why not use them to add additional ‘treats’ for users of more modern browsers? It’s a great way to get used to the concept and application of them.

For a full breakdown of browser support for various css tricks try http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html