I have a fairly simple HTML5 website going with some jquery/javascript and CSS. It looks fine in Chrome, FF and IE8, 9 and 10. However, when I switch the browser mode to IE7 it doesn't look right. If I change the document mode to "standards" it looks correct again, still in IE7 mode. Please see the screenshot for clarification. Can someone explain the difference between "Standards" mode and "IE7 Standards" mode? And how can I change the "page default"?
You need to Add
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
in your <head> tag.
This will force IE to use latest rendering engine even in chrome frame .
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I need to display a webpage in compatibility mode. I've tried the following tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=11">
But this only works if I have compatibility mode ON. With compatibility mode ON, the above tag allows me to change which version of IE the document should be displayed in. With compatibility mode OFF, the above tag has no affect.
Shouldn't this work with compatibility mode OFF?
My situation: Developing website that looks perfect when viewed in IE10/11 with compatibility mode ON. With it OFF it looks bad. Fixing it so that it runs without compatibility mode is not an option. What I need is to force compatibility mode ON for any user that views the site, so that they do not need to manually turn it on. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance
Use:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
You should use IE=edge to tell Internet Explorer to use the highest mode available.
The reason the X-UA-Compatible is not working is because I am using IE11. IE8 will turn compatibility mode on automatically, and then as a developer you can set the content mode. But IE 10/11 require compatibility mode to be set on manually before you can begin controlling emulation via meta tags.
Indulge me, I'm fighting with IE.
We have a set of pages that work nicely in IE8 (intranet). The company decided upgrading directly to IE10.
What is the html code to force a page to use I5 Quirks Mode (this is the mode it works). I've tried with :
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=IE5" />
But IE10 put's the page in quirks mode (not IE5). You open the debugger (F12) and there you can change the document mode and the browser mode. The important is to set the document mode in IE5 quirks
Some help is welcomed
The problem seems to be solved somewhere else
Does the windows 8 internet explorer 10 still have quirksmode?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/12/14/interoperable-html5-quirks-mode-in-ie10.aspx
<meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible content="IE=5">
So, your value is false, it's IE=5 and not IE=IE5
IE10 does not have an IE5 mode. They updated Quirks Mode to be more like IE9 (I think, not sure on that) so it's more in line with Chrome/Firefox/etc.. The best it can do is IE7.
I'm currently working on a site that has uses the Emulate IE7 meta tag like this:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
As far as I know and as far as I've googled this tag also addresses IE9, forcing it to go into IE7 compatibility mode.
However I noticed that one of the devs on the project is viewing the page in IE9-mode, not in compatibility mode.
How does this work? Is compatibility mode the default setting in IE9, when the Emulate IE7 meta tag is set? Would one have to manually change a setting in IE9 to bypass the Emulate IE7 meta tag?
The Developer Toolbar in IE9 (and IE8) allows you to change the browser mode-- including forcing display using the IE9 rendering engine.
For more information, read this MSDN article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd565628(VS.85).aspx#browsermodes
Try this link on Firefox or Chrome:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34375299/aaa/index.html
Notice a simple animation appears on a HTML5 canvas there.
Load the same link in IE9, and it displays the fallback content inside the canvas tag: "Your browser does not appear to support HTML5..." - but IE9 has perfectly good canvas support!
I'm using <!DOCTYPE html>, and if all the necessary files are downloaded and run in IE9 from disk, it works OK. Also, the same page hosted on other providers (e.g. normal web servers rather than dropbox), it also works OK.
What's different about dropbox that means IE9 won't show a canvas, and can I fix it?
Check to make sure that your IE9 is not in Compatibility Mode, which would force it behave like IE8, which doesn't support canvas. I'm guessing something on the dropbox site is forcing your browser into compatibility mode. See this answer for more details on that... Why does IE9 switch to compatibility mode on my website?
Unsure as to why this is happening, but it is going into IE 9 compatability mode instead of rending in standards mode. You can try forcing it with the following meta element: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" >
I have developed a website which works fine in all browsers except IE7 as reported by some users. In IE7 it is completely broken up.
Unfortunately I do not have access to any machine with IE7. Hence I installed developer toolbar on my IE8 and tried to view the site with compatibility mode set to IE7| IE7 Standards.
The site was working fine. When I set it to IE7 | IE7 Quirks mode however I could see that the site was broken.
What is the simplest way to fix this issue? Is there any way I can force the browser to render my website in IE7 standards mode always ?
Quirks mode in IE is usually triggered by a lack of (or incorrect) doctype.
Check that your doctype is valid. This should prevent it from going into quirks mode.
If you're not sure what to do, add the following to the top of your html code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
Hope that helps.
I know of this meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
But I'm not sure if it helps in your case. Maybe it's best to see what's causing the problem and solve that in a browser-indepent way.