IE8 Compatibility issue

Question

I want only IE8 to work with compatibility mode. But I couldn't do it by using the first way below:

First way: (It doesn't work)

    <!--[if IE 8]>
        <com:TMetaTag HttpEquiv="X-UA-Compatible" Content="IE=EmulateIE7" />  
    <![endif]-->

Second way:

<script type="text/javascript">
     var $j = jQuery.noConflict();

     if($j.browser.msie && $j.browser.version == "8.0")
     {
         alert("<com:TMetaTag HttpEquiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" Content=\"IE=EmulateIE7\" /> ");
     }

</script>

Now I am trying to echo the meta tag by using jquery like above. But I don't know how to do that? So I alert it to show you the problem clearly.

Note: I am using a php framework named by prado. So the tag element is a little bit different like (<com:TMetaTag...)

Because IE8 has some design problems and unfortunately to run it compability mode is the easist way for now. Thanks for answer. — Barış Velioğlu, Jul 13 '11 at 13:26
try using diff rendering mode http://firstblog-jc.blogspot.com/2011/02/ie-rendering-modes.html — jaychapani, Jul 13 '11 at 13:26

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '11 at 13:23

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IE8 in compatibility mode is going to recognize as IE7.

Try

<!--[if lte IE 8]>

answered Jul 13 '11 at 13:23

Stefan Kendall

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Actually this is the first way I have been tried before. The meta inside that tag is working for all IE versions. I think this is somehow related PRADO. Because I wrapped these meta tags not like . It is . Maybe it behaves different because of that but I am not sure. – Barış Velioğlu Jul 13 '11 at 13:35

SirensOfTitan · Answer 2 · 2011-07-13T14:23:02.203

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Using Javascript, you would use the

document.write()

Method to write directly into the HTML.

Edit: Didn't see you were using JQuery. This is probably a safer way of doing things:

$("head").append('<com:TMetaTag HttpEquiv="X-UA-Compatible" Content="IE=EmulateIE7" />')

edited Jul 13 '11 at 14:23

answered Jul 13 '11 at 13:25

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IE8 Compatibility issue

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