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Can i make a page with backup formatting, for browsers that don't support modern HTML or CSS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by IndigoGollum@lemmy.world to c/html@programming.dev

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My site is currently pretty simple, but it still uses enough CSS that some parts of it look really bad in a browser like Links2 that doesn't support CSS. Most of what i'm doing with CSS can be done with plain HTML, it just doesn't look as good.

Is there a way to make a page try to load normally with CSS and whatnot, and then only load a simpler version with everything done in tables if the normal version can't load? Is my best option here to make normal and simple versions of every page?

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

EDIT: assuming here that "just make the page simple" is not an option. If the page layout is advanced enough that lacking CSS is a serious instance, you'll need two versions (or a version and an "export") anyway.

An option that I strongly don't recommend but it is doable, is to make the page with tables, then format the tables with display:flex or display:grid and the adequate related properties for the "modernized" view for browsers that support CSS.

Then again, nothing really prevents you from doing things the better way: making two pages and linking from one to the ther with a link like

Click here for a simplified / tabular version

It's even easier to maintain, in particular if you have a good workflow / build system for composing either page from the data you want to show.