IE conditional statment not working no matter what I do

Question

This is incredibly frustrating, the if IE statement does not seem to work no matter what I do

I'm using IE 10

Here's the code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>

</head>
<body>
<!--[if IE]> 
<h1>You are using Internet Explorer</h1> 
<![endif]--> 

</body>
</html>

A possible duplicate of [How do I target only Internet Explorer 10 for certain situations like Internet Explorer-specific CSS or Internet Explorer-specific JavaScript code?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9900311/how-do-i-target-only-internet-explorer-10-for-certain-situations-like-internet-e) — David Thomas, Aug 08 '13 at 16:29

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 08 '13 at 16:26

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The problem you're having is that conditional comments do not work, and are deprecated, in Internet Explorer 10.

References:

'Microsoft drop conditional comments in IE10.'

answered Aug 08 '13 at 16:26

David Thomas

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I can only really point you to this question (among others): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9900311/how-do-i-target-only-internet-explorer-10-for-certain-situations-like-internet-e – David Thomas Aug 08 '13 at 16:28
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@huntingbears: Don't. Use feature detection. – SLaks Aug 08 '13 at 16:29
I have an image aligned 400px from the left, in IE it's not far enough across, like it's starting the 400px from further back, any way around this?? – huntingbears Aug 08 '13 at 16:32
Not without seeing your HTML and CSS, no. – David Thomas Aug 08 '13 at 16:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 18 '14 at 04:53

If somebody still reaches this page, wondering why the ie targeting doesnt work. IE 10 and onward no longer support conditional comments. From the MS official website:

Support for conditional comments has been removed in Internet Explorer 10 standards and quirks modes for improved interoperability and compliance with HTML5.

Please see here for more details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh801214(v=vs.85).aspx

If you desperately need to target ie, you can use this jquery code to add a ie class to and then use .ie class in your css to target ie browsers.

if ($.browser.msie) {
 $("html").addClass("ie");
}

IE conditional statment not working no matter what I do

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