Title: bootstrap.css and * before a property name
Tags: css;twitter-bootstrap
Question: I've been using Twitter's Bootstrap package to build a site, and was browsing through the CSS when I came across the following (more or less, cruft redacted for clarity):
.btn-primary {
background-color: #006dcc;
*background-color: #0044cc;
Now, I've seen * used as part of the selector, both as part of a constructor like li li * { ... } and as part of an attribute selector a [name*=foo] (and obviously as part of CSS comments /* */), but I've never seen this before. Can anybody share any insight as to what it's being used for? I've also seen it in the following (complete) context:
button.btn,
input[type="submit"].btn {
*padding-top: 3px;
*padding-bottom: 3px;
where the * is in front of two related but distinct properties. What's going on?

Here is the accepted answer: This article should answer your question. It's basically a way 'hacking' CSS selectors to target a certain browser.
Comment for this answer: The link should actually be http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/csshacks3.shtml but I found the answer anyway :) Thanks!


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