*display css hack?

Question

I recently started to work on a client's website. In the css it has a lot of references to "*display" usually in combination with "zoom" like below.

Is this a known hack? What is the expected behaviour?

header #mybar ul.right {
    display: inline-block;
    zoom: 1;
    *display: inline;
    float: none;
}

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '13 at 10:32

This is a hack to target IE7 it will not be picked up by modern browsers such as Firefox or Chrome, IE>8. So for instance, IE7 would display the element as inline, while others would ignore this style and display the UL appropriately as a block level element.

*display css hack?

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