Commented Backslash MacIE5 CSS Hack

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

Original source: Sam-I-am.com 

#isnotMacIE5 { display: none;  }
#isMacIE5 { display: block; background-color: #060; color: #fff; }

/* commented backslash hack v2 */
#isnotMacIE5 { display: block; background-color: #060; color: #fff; }
#isMacIE5 { display: none; }
/* end hack */

The use of the */ at the end of the first comment line stop IE5 on the Mac realising the comment has ended and so ignores all declarations until a subsequent comment is reached.