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I need to force IE8 to display as follows:
Browser Mode: Internet Explorer 8
Document Mode: IE8 Standards
I have added this tag however it only affects the document mode, not the browser mode. How do I override browser mode to ensure the page is always shown with IE8 browser mode too?
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
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In your Internet Explorer web browser, press F12 to open the Developer Tools window. Click Browser Mode and select the version of your web browser. Click Document Mode, and select the Internet Explorer standards for your Internet Explorer release.
IE8 Enterprise Mode provides a higher fidelity emulation of the Internet Explorer 8 browser by turning on functionality not available in other document modes. You can use the Enterprise Mode Site List Manager to specify any web path to load in this mode.
Click the Settings and More (ellipsis) button on the top-right corner. Select the Settings option. Click on Default browser. Under the “Internet Explorer compatibility” section, turn on the “Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode” toggle switch to enable IE mode on Edge.
Just give the HTML page the right doctype. E.g.
<!doctype html>
For an explanation and overview of all doctypes see http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/. You don't necessarily need those (nasty) meta headers.
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As I understand it, the meta element you've posted tells the browser to use IE8 mode.
Using a strict doctype, e.g. <!DOCTYPE html> or <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> will tell the browser to render in standards mode.
A combination of the two will render the page in IE8 Standards mode.
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