first-child and last-child with IE8

Question

I have some css for adjusting things in my table    Here it is    editor td first-child       width  150px       editor td last-child input   editor td last-child textarea       width  500px      padding  3px 5px 5px 5px      border  1px solid  CCC       It works with Firefox  Safari and Chrome but not  at this time  with IE8   I know the problem comes from the first-child and last-child but I m not an expert   Any idea how I can fixt it   PS  I added  lt  doctype html gt  on top of my html document but nothing changed

User · Answer

If you want to carry on using CSS3 selectors but need to support older browsers I would suggest using a polyfill such as Selectivizr js

User · Answer

If your table is only 2 columns across  you can easily reach the second td with the adjacent sibling selector  which IE8 does support along with  first-child    editor td first-child       width  150px       editor td first-child   td input   editor td first-child   td textarea       width  500px      padding  3px 5px 5px 5px      border  1px solid  CCC       Otherwise  you ll have to use a JS selector library like jQuery  or manually add a class to the last td  as suggested by James Allardice

User · Answer

Since  last-child is a CSS3 pseudo-class  it is not supported in IE8  I believe  first-child is supported  as it s defined in the CSS2 1 specification   One possible solution is to simply give the last child a class name and style that class   Another would be to use JavaScript  jQuery makes this particularly easy as it provides a  last-child pseudo-class which should work in IE8  Unfortunately  that could result in a flash of unstyled content while the DOM loads

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