The author recommends two ways to target rules at IE: 1) create new stylesheets for each version of IE, or 2) CSS hacks that only IE understand/ignores. But I

The author recommends two ways to target rules at IE: 1) create new stylesheets for each version of IE, or 2) CSS hacks that only IE understand/ignores. But I prefer to use a different approach: conditional classes on the body tag. For example: <!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <body class="ie6"> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE 7 ]> <body class="ie7"> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE 8 ]> <body class="ie8"> <![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]><!--> <body> <!--<![endif]--> Then you can write IE-specific rules without CSS hacks: body div#container { background-color: white; } body.ie6 div#container { background-color: red; } And all your related styles can be grouped together in the same file. via http://paulirish.com/2008/conditional-stylesheets-vs-css-hacks-answer-neither/ http://paulirish.com/2008/conditional-stylesheets-vs-css-hac... and http://www.paulhammond.org/2008/10/conditional/ http://www.paulhammond.org/2008/10/conditional/