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Is it bad to put <div> elements within the <head> tags?

I want to use conditional comments to make a DIV appear ONLY in browsers with IE7 or older, like this:

<!--[if lt IE 7]>

<div id="browsernotice">
<p>You are using IE7 or less</p>
</div>

<![endif]-->

As far as I understand, conditional comments only work in the header.

Is this bad?

Should I rather use conditional comments to instert a stylesheet that makes an invisible DIV visibility:visible?

Solution

  • The best way is to keep the content as is in the document body but instead apply a style sheet for ie that hides the div.

    with css 

        #browsernotice {
       display:none;
}

    And call it with a conditional statement 

    <!--[if lt IE 7]>
<link href="ie7.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<![endif]-->