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It’s important to remember that eventually IE will catch up to the times and we need to keep our hacks clean and ready for the future. At the moment, IE 6- seems to ignore decedent selectors so we can use that to our advantage when targeting a hack. We can use the child selector to replace both the old star html bug:

* html somehack{};

…and underscore hack:

ol {padding:0; _padding-left:5px;}

Here’s how:

div#header {margin-top:-3px;} /* IE HACK */
body > div#header {margin-top:0;} /* Reverse IE HACK */

.promo h3 {height:21px;} /* IE HACK */
.promo > h3 {height:auto; min-height:21px;} /* Reverse IE HACK */

ol {padding:0 0 0 5px;} /* IE HACK */
html > body ol {padding:0;} /* Reverse IE HACK */