Different CSS for Each Browser

Different CSS for each browser?

Ideal solution you want does not exist:

Unfortunately, a cross browser solution does not exist IF you are trying to do it on the HTML itself. However, it will work for most versions of IE. Like such:

<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/myIEGeneralStyle.css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/myIE6Style.css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/myIE7Style.css" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/myIE8Style.css" />
<![endif]-->

So the best solution:

How about a Javascript solution like such: Browser Detection. Read a bit about this class to better clarify, what that file is basically doing is simply the concept like such:

var browser = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('chrome') > -1 ? 'chrome' : 'other';

Obviously, it does more than just detect type of browser. In fact, it knows the version, OS, and much more detail that you can read about in that link. But, it does go and check all the types of browsers by replacing 'chrome' with 'mozilla', 'explorer' and so on...

Then to add your css files, just follow up with conditional statements like so:

if (BrowserDetect.browser.indexOf("chrome")>-1) {
document.write('<'+'link rel="stylesheet" href="../component/chromeCSSStyles.css" />');
} else if (BrowserDetect.browser.indexOf("mozilla")>-1) {
    document.write('<'+'link rel="stylesheet" href="../component/mozillaStyles.css" />');
} else if (BrowserDetect.browser.indexOf("explorer")>-1) {
    document.write('<'+'link rel="stylesheet" href="../component/explorerStyles.css" />');
}

Good luck and hope this helps!

How to apply different css style to one class in different browsers

/* Chrome 28+ (also affects Safari and MS Edge now) */
@supports (-webkit-appearance:none) { /* Needed styles */ }

/* Firefox (any) */
_:-moz-tree-row(hover), .selector { /* Needed styles */ }

/* Internet Explorer 11+ */
_:-ms-fullscreen, :root .selector { /* Needed styles */ }

/* Internet Explorer 10+ */
_:-ms-lang(x), .selector { /* Needed styles */ }

/* Also Internet Explorer 10+ */
@media screen and (-ms-high-contrast: active), (-ms-high-contrast: none) {
  /* Needed styles */
}

/* Internet Explorer 9+ */
_::selection, .selector { /* Needed styles */ }

/* Safari 6.1+, Chrome for iOS */
@media screen and (min-color-index: 0) and(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 0) { @media {
  /* Needed styles */
}}

If you need IE9-

For IE9- you can apply conditional comments and add style or link tag there. Also they allow to add conditional markup for browsers.

<!--[if IE]><p>You are using Internet Explorer.</p><![endif]-->

<!--[if IE 7]><p>Welcome to Internet Explorer 7!</p><![endif]-->
<!--[if !(IE 7)]><p>You are not using version 7.</p><![endif]-->

<!--[if gte IE 7]><p>You are using IE 7 or greater.</p><![endif]-->
<!--[if (IE 5)]><p>You are using IE 5 (any version).</p><![endif]-->
<!--[if (gte IE 5.5)&(lt IE 7)]><p>You are using IE 5.5 or IE 6.</p><![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 5.5]><p>Please upgrade your version of Internet Explorer.</p><![endif]-->

Different CSS files for Different Browsers

I know only for ie:

<!--[if IE]><link href="/ie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><![endif]-->

also js detection

different css on different browsers and devices, responsiveness

Is this correct way of implementing the responsiveness?

is there a better way to do this?

Can't say if this is the best way to go about it but here's my advice: don't do browser detection. It's a cat-and-mouse game, you'll never see the end of it.

Back in the days when IE was a popular browser (eww), we had to do browser detection to apply custom "hacks" to make sure sites looked & behaved mostly the same on all major browsers - including Internet Explorer itself.

However, nowadays most major browsers follow the same web standards and so most CSS rules / properties behave pretty much the same way in every one of them so browser detection isn't really necessary anymore. What we do now is feature detection: check if the browser supports a given feature (eg. multiple background images), and if it doesn't then provide a suitable fallback.

Also, to make sure every HTML element behaves & looks the same way in most modern browsers (since each browser often has their own set of default CSS rules) independently of what screen resolution is being used you can use CSS resets which -as the name implies- resets the styling of all HTML elements to a consistent baseline. Personally, I prefer using normalize.css as it isn't as aggresive as CSS resets are and also includes a few useful rules.

Finally, here's a nice article from Google on Responsive Web Design that should help get you on the right track: Responsive Web Design Basics.

How to provide CSS properties for Different browsers like Mozilla and Chrome

Using CSS Media Queries (Chrome/Safari)

@media not all and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0)
{  
    #example
    {
        width: 200px;
    }
}

Chrome/Safari specific css file (Chrome/Safari)

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style-sheet_chrome.css" type="text/chrome/safari" />

Here is a CSS Hacks list

/***** Selector Hacks ******/

/* IE6 and below */
* html #uno  { color: red }

/* IE7 */
*:first-child+html #dos { color: red } 

/* IE7, FF, Saf, Opera  */
html>body #tres { color: red }

/* IE8, FF, Saf, Opera (Everything but IE 6,7) */
html>/**/body #cuatro { color: red }

/* Opera 9.27 and below, safari 2 */
html:first-child #cinco { color: red }

/* Safari 2-3 */
html[xmlns*=""] body:last-child #seis { color: red }

/* safari 3+, chrome 1+, opera9+, ff 3.5+ */
body:nth-of-type(1) #siete { color: red }

/* safari 3+, chrome 1+, opera9+, ff 3.5+ */
body:first-of-type #ocho {  color: red }

/* saf3+, chrome1+ */
@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
 #diez  { color: red  }
}

/* iPhone / mobile webkit */
@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {
 #veintiseis { color: red  }
}

/* Safari 2 - 3.1 */
html[xmlns*=""]:root #trece  { color: red  }

/* Safari 2 - 3.1, Opera 9.25 */
*|html[xmlns*=""] #catorce { color: red  }

/* Everything but IE6-8 */
:root *> #quince { color: red  }

/* IE7 */
*+html #dieciocho {  color: red }

/* Firefox only. 1+ */
#veinticuatro,  x:-moz-any-link  { color: red }

/* Firefox 3.0+ */
#veinticinco,  x:-moz-any-link, x:default  { color: red  }

/***** Attribute Hacks ******/

/* IE6 */
#once { _color: blue }

/* IE6, IE7 */
#doce { *color: blue; /* or #color: blue */ }

/* Everything but IE6 */
#diecisiete { color/**/: blue }

/* IE6, IE7, IE8 */
#diecinueve { color: blue\9; }

/* IE7, IE8 */
#veinte { color/*\**/: blue\9; }

/* IE6, IE7 -- acts as an !important */
#veintesiete { color: blue !ie; } /* string after ! can be anything */

Where and how do i call different CSS for different browsers in my MVC website?

Using a browser specific stylesheet is no different in ASP .NET MVC. You put the if statement and point to the stylesheet. See more here. You can put your stylesheet statements in the _Layout.cshtml file in the Views\Shared folder

In ASP .NET MVC, the stylesheet is in the Content folder.

ASP .NET MVC 4 uses Minification and Bundling. Look inside the App_Start folder, you will see a BundleConfig.cs file, and inside, you will see the bundles that contain the css and javascript. In the _layout.cshtl file, you will see code that references these bundles ,which is something like @Styles.Render("~/Content/css").

"So where and how do i call different style sheets for different browsers in a MVC website?"

In the Layout file which has your <head> tags. like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title>@ViewBag.Title - My ASP.NET MVC Application</title>
        <link href="~/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
        @Styles.Render("~/Content/css")
        @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/modernizr")
        <!--[if IE]>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="iespecific.css" />
        <![endif]-->

    </head>
    ....

Is there a way to set any style for a specific browser in CSS?

For example, if I want to set the corner radius in Webkit, Firefox and other than I can use the following CSS

No, that isn't how it works.

Vendor prefixed properties are used for experimental features. Either because the specification for the property hasn't been locked down or because the browser implementor knows their are problems with the implementation.

In general, you shouldn't use them in production code because they are experimental.

Support for the vendor prefixed versions is removed as support stabilises.

Is there a way to set any style for a specific browser in CSS?

There are several methods that have been used for that effect.

Parser bugs

By exploiting bugs or unsupported features in specific CSS engines (e.g. some versions of IE will ignore a * character on the front of a property name while other browsers will (correctly) discard the entire rule).

Conditional comments

Older versions of Internet Explorer supported an extended HTML comment syntax that could be used to add <link> or <style> elements specifically for certain versions of IE.

Support for this has been dropped.

JavaScript

Classes can be added to elements (typically the body element) using JavaScript after doing browser detection in JS.

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