The tool of choice for fighting IE problems is the conditional stylesheet. IE provides comment tags, supported all the way up to the current IE 8 to target specific versions, as well as greater-than/less-than stuff for targeting multiple versions at once.

Why use conditional stylesheets?

• You got problems, they need fixin’
• Keeps your code hack-free and valid
• Keeps your main stylesheet clean
• Perfectly acceptable technique, sanctioned by Microsoft

As web developer, we usually to fix the style for special version of IE. Here are the newest CSS tricks for IE6, IE7, IE

As web developer, we usually need to face the challenge of making cross-browser compatible. Especially IE browser’s multiple version. Because its quirks of rendering websites differently across its versions of IE6, IE7, IE8 and possibly IE9 and IE10.

Most of us have only one version of IE browser on our computer, and the compatible mode of IE is not really specific version which you want to simulate.