Does anyone know how to change .css files based on a browser? I found one answer, but it involved a .cgi script, and I'm using a free host. I currently have a script that redirects users to a different page for each browser, but I found that in Firefox, I need to recode some css values because it doesn't snow up the same.

Can you use javascript to do this? Or is it different? I really don't want to be 4 sets of pages for each browser, so this would be very helpful.

actually it's even simpler than that .

Use a correct, full and valid DTD to get IE into standards mode, design and test in Firefox and you don't need to get complicated with browser sniffers and CSS switching.

If you're still interested, there's a thread here that is about browser sniffing.

Try Conditional Comments?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...omment_ovw.asp

Ok, but you can use PHP on free hosts? I wasn't sure it allowed it.

Some free hosts do allow you to use PHP but many do not. If you're not sure then it's likely that you're host will have a customer support e-mail address or frequently asked questions section on their home page. Look around carefully.

So, what's the PHP work around? Just use validated CSS? Seems alright, but once I change it in Firefox, it looks different in Internet Explorer.

It is almost impossible to get a page to look identical in all browsers and various version of browsers. It is a pointless task trying. Added to that in the vast majority of sites there is no need to.

Consider it carefully, as long as it isn't completely "broken", Who is ever going to notice that an element is 3px further to the right in IE than FF. That's right, nobody but you!
The vast majority of visitors to any site you design will be using just the one browser, and it will be whatever is the default on the machine they are on. Stats from a couple of commercial sites I look after still show IE at 90-95% of browser visitors (spiders excluded).

Stop fretting about it. If it works in most browser and looks close enough why worry?
That's my philosophy.
I don't use hacks, cracks, patches, workarounds etc, simply because one day the bugs these workarounds rely on may well be fixed! what happens then? Do you have to use a workaround to workaround the previous workaround ?

just my 0.10 GBPs worth

I don't use hacks and workarounds for more or less the same reason. However I dish out code that I know works to a certain browser to that certain browser. For anything unknown, I make the assumption that it's complient.
For example, if you use IE6 and visit my site, it will dish out CSS Filters to make PNG images work. Could be considered a workaround seeing as it's technicly invalid CSS, but nobody's ever going to see it other than people who use IE6. (Except people who use user-agent switchers, but if they get a dodgey looking page then it's their own fault for being so dumb.)

Well, it's really more of a private website, and I didn't expect much more than 20 people to visit it, but I wanted to see if two different css files could be incorporated; one for each browser. Thanks for the help though.