<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" >
the above line of code forces the browser to make
Document mode to IE 9 standard and
Browser mode to IE 9 Compatiblity mode
How can i make Document mode to IE 9 standard and browser mode to IE 9 mode
this works for me..
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>title</title>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1" />
Do you have any other links or scripts above your X-UA-Compatible meta tag in your <head>? If so this might be causing the problem.
Also make sure to check the compatibility settings in your browser itself by going to:
Tools --> Compatability View Settings
There are several possible explanations, such as HTTP headers overriding the meta tag, domain name being blacklisted by Microsoft, or your local admin having forced IE to Compatibility mode. For a description of some possibilities and possible cures, check out IE8 and IE9 Complications in “Activating Browser Modes with Doctype”.
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I have IE9 browser. My application is rendering in Standard Document Mode which works fine for me. When I select
Browser mode: IE9 compatibility mode
then my document mode should change automatically to IE7 Standards.
Is there any meta tag that could help me so, whenever I select browser mode, my document mode should be IE9 standards? I have tried this :
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title>Summary Dashboardt</title>
</head>
----
---code--
</html>
But can't get any success. Is there any meta tag that will be help me?
I have developed a web site on Google App Engine using JSP and JQuery 1.11.2. The following tag is added to the Head section on every jsp.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
The client has to be using IE9 to view this site. Also, the javascript code only works with "IE9 Compatibility View".
The issue is every time the user opens the home page IE9 renders it in "Internet Explorer 9" mode instead of ""IE9 Compatibility View"".
How can I set up the meta tag in head to force IE9 to use "IE9 Compatibility View" as Browser Mode and keep "IE9 Standards" as Document Mode?
For force IE9 to use "IE9 Compatibility View", like this:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
or use X-UA-Compatible in the HTTP header.
Use this as a first meta tag in page,
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
When I view my website in IE10, it seems that it's automatically forcing IE8 document standards. However, I would like it to use IE9 standards, when being viewed in IE10.
Is there a way to do this?
The page has <!DOCTYPE html> at the top.
EDIT: It turned out that I had <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> in the page header, which was causing the page to render in IE8 document mode. Changing this to IE=9 fixed the issue.
I recommend to use the X-UA meta tag. The X-UA-Compatible meta tag allows you to choose what version of Internet Explorer the page should be rendered as.
You specify the user agent and version to use in the contents of the tag. The current options you have for the content are: IE=5, IE=EmulateIE7, IE=7, IE=EmulateIE8, IE=8, IE=EmulateIE9, IE=9, IE=edge.
Emulating the version tells the browser to use the DOCTYPE to determine how to render content. Pages without a DOCTYPE will be rendered in quirks mode. If you tell it to use the browser version without emulating (i.e. IE=7) the browser will render the page in standards mode whether or not there is a DOCTYPE declaration. IE=edge tells Internet Explorer to use the highest mode available to that version of IE. Internet Explorer 8 can support up to IE8 modes, IE9 can support IE9 modes and so on.
I think you need this:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9"/>
Use X-UA meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />
And I don't know why you want to do this, as IE 10 is far more excellent than any of the previous versions of IE, if you are testing, you can press F12 and change the mode
I have the following html code that works without the http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" in IE8 but fails when it has it. I think the order is correct (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/07/18/optimal-html-head-ordering-to-avoid-parser-restarts-redownloads-and-improve-performance.aspx), and the code is valid so I don't see the reason why it would do this.
Please, any explanation?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8, IE=edge" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<base href="file:///D:/LocalPath/ToFrameElements/">
<title>IE8 stuff</title>
</head>
Your X-UA-Compatible http-equiv string is invalid.
It has 2 values:
IE=8 ( IE 8 standards rendering mode )
IE=edge ( latest engine )
However, the syntax is incorrect. The correct syntax is:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8; IE=edge" />
When multiple values are specified, highest value will be used. That is,
In IE9 , the page will be rendered in IE 9 standards rendering mode.
In IE8 , the page will be rendered in IE 8 standards rendering mode.
Solution: Fix the syntax and retry.
Reference:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/Browser_compatibility
Define Document Compatibility
Understanding Compatibility Modes in IE8
Sidenote: IE supports this meta tag starting from IE 8.
The base element is defined so that its value must be an absolute URL. Besides, any effect of a file: URL is by definition system-dependent. So you should organize your local files and references to them so that a base tag is not needed.
The frames wouldn't appear because of the standard document mode that the
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8, IE=edge" />
or not relaying on the browser's error tolerance, the syntactically correct way
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8; IE=edge" />
implies.
This is because in the standard document rendering mode IE does not allow the use of base href with links to the filesystem for security's sake. To have the base href working it can only be achieved by removing the the meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" so that page will run in quirks rendering mode.
A web application we have for an organisation that is officially upgrading its standard browser from IE6 to IE8 (queue celebrations), we've set all our DOCTYPEs to be <!DOCTYPE html> (as well as fixed other html code) and I thought that in IE8 this would cause the page to be rendered in IE8 Standards Mode. However, it is still shown in IE7 Standards mode.
I've added the <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"> into the <head> section and it still fails to default to IE8 Standards mode. I'm presuming at this stage that there must be a setting (perhaps Group Policy etc) that is forcing the mode.
After reading a hack on an MSDN forum that if you put the meta tag before the <html> tag, it correctly displays as IE8 Standards mode, and this worked for me. Is there another way to do this? It just looks terrible seeing the meta tag there...
Here's roughly how each page is made up:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
You could set X-UA-Compatible as a HTTP response header, instead of as a meta tag.
This is a much cleaner solution than placing it above the <html> tag.
A confusing useful blog post concerning X-UA-Compatible and its many intricacies:
http://farukat.es/journal/2009/05/245-ie8-and-the-x-ua-compatible-situation
Two possibilities:
The meta tag definitely belongs into the <head> section of the document.
If this is in an Intranet, this may be IE's "Smart default" kicking in. Yes, there is such a thing as smart defaults. See here. Because if you're in an Intranet, IE8 will automatically go into IE7 compatibility mode so as not to break the many corporate apps that rely on IE7. Makes sense, right? Right?