internet explorer - IE8 css selector

Question

To target elements only in IE browsers i'll use

IE6:

* html #nav li ul {
    left: -39px !important;
    border: 1px solid red;
}

IE7:

*+html #nav li ul  {
    left: -39px! important;
}

Does anyone know how to target IE8?

Answer 1

I'm not going to get in a debate about whether or not this method should be used, but this will let you set specific css attributes for IE8-9 only (note: it is not a selector, so a bit different than what you asked):

Use '/' after each css declaration, so:

#nav li ul  {
  left: -39px/ !important;
}

And to build off another answer, you can do this to assign variou styles to IE6, IE7, and IE8:

#nav li ul  {
   *left: -7px    !important; /* IE 7 (IE6 also uses this, so put it first) */
   _left: -6px    !important; /* IE 6 */
    left: -8px/ !important; /* IE 8-9 */
}

source: http://dimox.net/personal-css-hacks-for-ie6-ie7-ie8/