IE7 targeting hacks working in Opera when the xml prolog precedes the doctype

I recommend that before using any of these hacks that you look at this page and also google the older blog page by David Hammond.

* html - target IE 6 and earlier

*+html - target IE 7 and Opera 9.10 and 9.24

*~html - target IE 7, Opera 9.10 and 9.24 and Opera 9.5 alpha

*+*+html

*~*~html

*:first-child+html - target IE 7

html:first-child - target Opera 9.10 and 9.24

*+html:first-child - target Opera 9.10 and 9.24


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en">
 
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  5. Thanks to Philippe Wittenbergh for sharing with me the details for Opera 9.5 alpha

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