What is the alternative for using :after and :before in IE7

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I am using pseudo classes and they work fine everywhere except IE7. I would like to know if there is any way to make them work in IE7.

I think you should show your code. – TimWolla Jan 21 '12 at 20:34 — TimWolla, Jan 21 '12 at 20:34

wizzard0 · Answer 1 · 2012-01-21T20:44:23.790

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You can detect user-agent on the server and output different HTML to different browsers.

For PHP, you can use Browser.php (for example), or simply look at $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] variable

Other than that - only Javascript, sorry.

EDIT: Simplest way (no JS coding needed) - is to use Selectivizr - http://selectivizr.com/

It's the CSS3 emulation library for IE6-8

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answered Jan 21 '12 at 20:36

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can you just through some more insight into your first option please – Mike Jan 21 '12 at 20:37
For the first option: what do you use on your server side? PHP, C#, Ruby, Python, Perl? – wizzard0 Jan 21 '12 at 20:38
php is how I would like to know – Mike Jan 21 '12 at 20:40
Here, have a link for PHP and for Javascript. Personally I prefer the JS version - it's A LOT simpler. – wizzard0 Jan 21 '12 at 20:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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Here is the link on stackoverflow and the same question, somehow I am sure you'll find the answer you want here.

:after and :before css pseudo elements hack for IE 7

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answered Jan 21 '12 at 22:09

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '12 at 20:36

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No can do...

if it is absolutely necessary to utilize those pseudo elements in that browsers, you'll probably have to load a js file to correct the problem: http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

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What is the alternative for using :after and :before in IE7

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