What is the role of # in front of CSS declaration (not overall rule, b

[tnet21]

I am looking at something like this:

#content {
float: ;left;
#max-width: 67%;
max-width: 68%;
#margin-left: 15px;
}

aside {
#width: 100%;
#clear: left;
margin-top: 40px;
#background: #f0f0f0;
padding: 10px 10px 0 10px;
}

What would be the difference between "#max-width:" and "max-width", for example? Why "#background:" and not "background:" etc?

Thank you.

[g1smd]

I assume they wanted to comment out those items.

[tnet21]

Yes, thats what it is:

This is uncommmented code. It’s old code with no function. It can be removed. Normally I don’t delete old code immediately, but I comment it out, for safety.

Thank you.

[Paul_o_b]

It is not advised to use that method to comment out code as you should use proper css comments if you want to hide sections of code.

In the above code IE7 and under will actually read all those styles that have a hash in front of them and is a common way to target IE7 and under but is an invalid hack and should be avoided.