4095 CSS selectors

You may don’t know but the entire family of IE browser has a limit for the amount of CSS selectors to be swallowed; and when I say entire I mean IE6, IE7, and IE8.

Yes you read right, the “fabulous” new IE8 still is carrying that limitation.

Long story short is that IE stops reading selectors after 4095 ignoring the rest of your CSS code, however this is not happening in other browsers.

You may think this is a big number (I did too) but you will be surprise to see how easily the selectors growth when you are working with a CMS and a big big site.

Entry posted on March 27th, 2009 at 11:37 under Browsers, CSS.
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