[Solved] What is the purpose of putting "*" in css?

[Rajinder S. GIll]

Hello guys, I was just trying to cleaning my CSS in bootstrap, but I found lot’s places they had putted “*” before CSS property..why?

Thanks
Rihan

[Rajinder S. GIll]

No see the following coding –

#container {
  border: 1px solid black;
*border: 1px solid black;
}

[Rajinder S. GIll]

And also what is the meaning of this ?

.container {
background-color: #080808 \9;
background-color: #080808;
}

[Paulie_D]

They are both ‘hacks’ for older versions of Internet Explorer.

See broswerhacks.com or https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/browser-specific-hacks/

[Rajinder S. GIll]

Thanks everyone :-)

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