IE6 Notice

• Author(s): George Ornbo
• Source Code: Github

Compatibility

• XHTML 1.1
• CSS 2.1

License

IE6 Notice is free for personal and commercial use.

XHTML / CSS Framework is licensed under a Open Source Initiative - BSD License license. I encourage others to fork the code and enhance it.

Installation

To add IE6 Notice to your site just add this code before the closing body tag of your HTML.

<!--[if IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://shapeshed.github.com/ie6-notice/ie6notice-1.0.0.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

Name

IE6 Notice

Synopsis

IE6 Notice is a 2kb JavaScript file that adds a notice for site visitors using Internet Explorer 6

Description

Internet Explorer 6 was released on August 27, 2001. Almost eight years later the web has moved on but Internet Explorer is still widely used, especially in corporate environments. It is time that users were encouraged to upgrade from Internet Explorer.

Don’t like the style? You can override the styles of the notice with your own custom CSS. The following elements can be styled:

• #ie6-notice - the div containing the notice
• #ie6-notice p#ie6-text - the paragraph containing the notice text
• #ie6-notice p#ie6-hide-notice a - the hide this notice link

See also

• Github

You can open a ticket over at Lighthouse. As this is free software the response time can vary.

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