conditionalComment (OmniFaces 5.2 VDL Documentation)

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Description:
The <o:conditionalComment> component renders a conditional comment. Conditional comments are an IE specific feature which enables the developer to (out)comment blocks of HTML depending on whether the client is using IE and if so even which version. They are often seen in combination with CSS stylesheets like so:
```
 
 
```
However, Facelets renders the comment's contents HTML-escaped which makes it unusable.
```
 
 
```
Also, if jakarta.faces.FACELETS_SKIP_COMMENTS context param is set to true then it will even not be rendered at all. You would need to workaround this with an ugly <h:outputText escape="false">.
```
 <h:outputText
     value="&lt;!--[if lte IE 7]&gt;&lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;ie6-ie7.css&quot; /&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;"
     escape="false" />
 
```
This component is designed to solve this problem.
```
 <o:conditionalComment if="lte IE 7">
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="ie6-ie7.css" />
 </o:conditionalComment>
 
```
Note that you cannot use this with <h:outputStylesheet> as it would implicitly be relocated as direct child of <h:head>.

Component Information
Info	Value
Component Type	`org.omnifaces.component.output.ConditionalComment`
Handler Class	None
Renderer Type	None
Description	None

Attributes
Name	Required	Type	Description
`binding`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `jakarta.faces.component.UIComponent`)	The ValueExpression linking this component to a property in a backing bean.
`id`	`false`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.String`)	The component identifier for this component. This value must be unique within the closest parent component that is a naming container.
`if`	`true`	`jakarta.el.ValueExpression` (must evaluate to `java.lang.String`)	The `if` condition of the conditional comment. This is exactly the value you would use in