I've really pondered on this issue and tried to get to work but there is no way out. I hope someone here can help me get at the solution.

While coding in CSS, you can have codes as:


#contents input:focus {
border: #999 1px solid;
background: #fff;
color: #900;
}

Now, this will work on FF,Opera and other browsers I guess but not on IE. How can one get this to work without implementing Javascript codes to aid it?

You can't - that code isn't cross-browser, with respect to all browsers not being CSS compliant. I have used the very same code on a few sites myself, wondered why it didn't work and did some research on it.

When you say IE though, you have to be specific - it works in IE7+ but not IE8

Toodles

Unfortunately, there may never be support for that true pure coding css or without IE. hacks.

It is possible for things to get worse with CSS3 and html 5.

No loves for IE?

MS and their crap, IE should be discontinued

This has inspired my latest rant

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-345259.0.html