Pleasemedia queries
Safe to usecssMedia Queries (MQ) work on all modern browsers.
- Verdict
- Safe to use
- Category
- CSS features
- Browser support
- Can I Use
- Works in
- IE9+
Should you use media queries in 2026?
IE 8 unfortunately does not understand media queries on features, which means none of your CSS within media queries will be parsed by them. We recommend you make peace with that, but if you absolutely cannot, then you can use Respond.js but be aware it has performance overhead that slows down page load.
If you choose a mobile first approach, you'll be targeting smallest screens first, then the different media queries will take effect as the window/device size increases. But if the browser doesn't support media queries and you don't use a polyfill, then the 'mobile first' styles will be applied to IE 8. You can serve a separate stylesheet for IE to help with this.