Once IE6 becomes outdated you'll be able to use the commands outlined in this article. Actually, that's not strictly true - provided that your website doesn't rely on these commands and is still legible in IE6 and before then there's no problem using them.

Child selector

Despite Internet Explorer 6 not supporting the CSS child selector, it's actually been used a lot as a way of hiding CSS commands from Internet Explorer. This is no longer possible as IE7 now understands the child selector. So, what is the child selector? Well, imagine the following HTML structure:

<div><p><span>Text goes here</span></p></div>

In the above example, the <p> is a child of the <div> and the <span> is a grandchild of the <div>. We can make the text in the <span> red by using the following CSS rule:

div span {color: red;}

This basically means that the contents of the <span> will be red, provided that the <span> is nested within a <div>. That <span> could be a child, grandchild, great-grandchild etc. of the <div>.

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