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There are many similarities between using CSS hacks and lying. First of all, what is a CSS hack? A CSS hack is a means by which you can get different browsers and browser versions to see and render your stylesheets differently so you can give them different directions (ironically though it's normally done to achieve pixel perfect cross platform web pages). They are also mostly done for Internet Explorer (which for some reason refused to implement standards based CSS until recently). CSS hacks mostly exploit bugs in a particular browser such as the Star HTML hack . This hack was used to get code to run in IE6 and lower in a different manner than other browsers. IE also introduced conditional comments which allow you to add an extra stylesheet to "fix" any CSS issues. This is not technically a hack, but it does require you to write and maintain extra CSS. There are also more subtle types of hacks to make up for some things that are missing in IE like the IE min-height hack ...