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.
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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 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 .
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
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
This is a very cool piece of code that forces Chromeframe or latest rendering engine. It can even be sent throught the http headers if you want the html to validate. But with this comes a doubt for me. I use IE8 in compatibility mode to test my websites for IE7 (either clicking the "sheet-of-paper" icon next to the URL box, or by activating "browsing mode" in developer tools). So my question is:
Does compatibility mode still renders webpages as IE7, or does the X-UA instruction blocks my intention?
Im worrying that I think ive checked my pages in IE7 and it turns out what im seeing it's not really what a native IE7 would show....
Thanks for your comments.
Anything you do in developer tools overrides the headers and meta tags. Here's a flowchart which explains it all:
If IE7 compatibility is really important to you, don't use IE7 mode in IE8/9/10 to test it. Use a virtual machine with a native IE7. IE7 mode in IE8/9/10 doesn't behaves exactly the same as a native IE7. What you worry about is true even if Chrome frame isn't installed.
I have a gwt application with various layoutpanels. My layout works fine with all browsers except IE9. The layout is completely broken. Text appears everywhere, images at the bottom of the page or just shown for a 3/4, etc. I have recompiled my app with the newest version of gwt 2.3 but it didn't change anything. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Here an image with the broken background:
It is very strange that in IE9 something is broken and NOT in the other browsers.
Try this:
-correct the issues for IE9 and your other target browsers
-then see if in the other browsers you continue seeing everything ok (probably you will have problems with IE6 and IE7 so then what I would do is to fix them with a hack)
So what I recommend is to beging working with the highest version of the browsers and THEN fix the older ones. Do the inverse way...=)
If this doesnt help you, could you attach us some code?
A workaround to your problem might be to add the "X-UA-Compatible" meta tag to your HTML to tell IE to render in a different mode. For example, to tell IE9 to always render in IE8 mode:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
There are many useful articles regarding this meta tag