CSS not displaying properly after transferred to IIS 7 in IE 9

Question

When running on dev server through VS 2010 all CSS displays properly. I publish to win server 2008 r2 with IIS 7, and when I open in IE 9 the inline-block doesnt work, the gradients dont work, and the box-shadow doesnt work. It strips out most of the CSS formatting, I load the same page in firefox and it looks the same as it does in IE 9 under the dev server. Code below: CSS file:

body {
}
#opsChartContainer
{
    background: #FFFFFF;
margin: auto;
width: 600px;
padding-top: 15px;
font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
display: inline-table;
}
#oldestActiveCon
{
    background: #FFFFFF;
    margin: auto;
    width: 300px;
    padding-top: 15px;
    font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
    display: inline-table;
}
#incVolumeCon
{
    background: #FFFFFF;
    margin: auto;
    width: 700px;
    padding-top: 15px;
    font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
    display: inline-table;
}
#reqSLACon
{
    background: #FFFFFF;
    margin: auto;
    width: 400px;
    padding-top: 15px;
    font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
    display: inline-table;
}

h1
{
    background: #e3e3e3;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #fcfdfe, #8bb7e3);
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#fcfdfe), to(#8bb7e3));
    padding: 10px 20px;
    margin-left: -20px;
    margin-top: 0;
    position: relative;
    width: 70%;
    -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #292929;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #292929;
    box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #292929;
    -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#fcfdfe,     endColorstr=#8bb7e3)";
    color: #454545;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 0 white;
    font-size: small;
    font-weight: bold;
}
h2
{
    background: #dde3d5;
    padding: 10px 20px;
    margin-left: 5px;
    margin-top: 10px;
    position: relative;
    -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #292929;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #292929;
    box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #b5baae;
    color: #454545;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 0 white;
    font-size: small;
    font-style: normal;
}
.mGrid { 
    width: 100%; 
    margin: 5px 0 10px 0; 
    border: solid 1px #525252; 
    border-collapse:collapse; 
}
.mGrid td { 
    padding: 2px; 


}
.header
{
    padding: 4px 2px;
    color: #ffffff;
    background: #4289c6 url('../grd_head.png') repeat-x top;
}
.alt
{
    background: #FFFFFF url('../grd_alt.png') repeat-x top;
    font-size: smaller;
    font-family: Arial;
    font-style: normal;
}
.rst
{
    background: #FFFFFF url('../grd_firstt.png') repeat-x top;
    font-size: smaller;
    font-family: Arial;
    font-style: normal;
}

ul#testy li
{
    list-style-type: none;
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: top;
    padding-left: 50px;
}

ASPX front end:

<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site1.Master" AutoEventWireup="true"     CodeBehind="test.aspx.cs" Inherits="test.test" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="server">




</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server">
<div id="opsChartContainer"><h1>TEXT</h1><h2>FLASHFILE</h2></div>
<div id="oldestActiveCon"><h1>TEXT</h1>
<h2>
    <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" CellPadding="4" 
        ForeColor="#333333" 
        GridLines="None" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" Width="200px">
        <AlternatingRowStyle CssClass="alt" />
        <Columns>
            <asp:BoundField DataField="Status" HeaderText="Status" 
                SortExpression="Status" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="Team" HeaderText="Team" SortExpression="Team" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="Time" HeaderText="Time" ReadOnly="True" 
                SortExpression="Time" />
            <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Request ID">
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server" Target="_blank"     NavigateUrl='<%    # "link"+ Eval("Request") + "&"%>'><%#Eval("Request")%></asp:HyperLink>
                </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:TemplateField>
        </Columns>

        <HeaderStyle CssClass="header" />

<RowStyle CssClass="rst"></RowStyle>

    </asp:GridView>
</h2>
</div>


<div id="incVolumeCon">
    <h1>text</h1>
    <h2>
        flashfile
    </h2>
</div>
<div id="reqSLACon">
    <h1> text</h1>  
        <h2>
        <asp:GridView ID="GridView2" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" 
        DataSourceID="blahblah" CellPadding="4" ForeColor="#333333" 
        GridLines="None" CssClass="mGrid" AlternatingRowStyle-CssClass="alt" RowStyle-CssClass="rst" Width = "400">
        <Columns>
            <asp:BoundField DataField="text" HeaderText="text" ReadOnly="True" 
                SortExpression="text" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="Dueby Time" HeaderText="text" ReadOnly="True" 
                SortExpression="text" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="text" HeaderText="text" 
                ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="text" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="text" HeaderText="text" 
                ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="text" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="Expr1" HeaderText="text" ReadOnly="True" 
                SortExpression="Expr1" />
            <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Request ID" >
            <ItemTemplate>
                    <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server" Target="_blank" NavigateUrl='<%# "link"+ Eval("Request ID") + "&"%>'><%#Eval("Request ID")%></asp:HyperLink>
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:TemplateField>
    </Columns>

</asp:GridView>

test
    </h2>
</div>

ANY ideas? What is causing the disparity between when I view it in IE 9 through dev server from vs 2010 and when I view it in IE 9 on production server?

Answer 1

Your page is running with a Document Mode other than "IE 9 Standards".

Hit F12 to bring up the Developer Tools to see which it actually is.

See here for instructions to work out why this is happening: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/#ie8modes

Otherwise, you can fix it by adding this to the top of your <head>:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />

This will force IE to use its most up-to-date rendering engine.

This can be done in IIS server also by settings in HTTP Response Header. IN the Name field put "X-UA-Compatible" and in the Value field put "IE=Edge" in EDIT Custom HTTP Response Header as below image.

Answer 2

I had this same problem on a couple of websites. It rendered correctly in all browsers (That I tested) except IE9. I solved it by inserting <meta content="IE=8" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" /> in the HEADER.

But with me situation it did not work anywhere locally or remotely, so if your rendering locally it could be something else but it's worth a try.

Hope that helps....