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sets User Agent, conditional comments version number, and document mode to Internet Explorer 8 in any version of Internet Explorer. This can be changed in IE's Developer Tools Browser Mode menu item.

sets User Agent, conditional comments version number, and document mode to Internet Explorer 8 in any version of Internet Explorer. This can be changed in IE's Developer Tools Browser Mode menu item.

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Force IE8 or IE9 document mode to standards

Ok so sorry for being blunt here but I have been developing on IE 8 and IE9 for the past 2 years and can't seem to get this right. I work at abhor company and develop for their website. For some reason IE8 or IE9 defaults to a lower document mode…
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IE8 automatically uses the "IE8 Compat View" browser mode and "IE7 Standards" document mode

I built a website based on the HTML5 Boilerplate. I haven't changed anything in the boilerplate, other than adding my custom code to the Body part in the HTML. I'm targeting IE8 as the minimum IE version to support. The problem is that when I open…
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Overriding the Internet Explorer 8 Browser Mode in an intranet environment

I am working on an intranet website within a corporate company where there is the Internet Explorer 8 (running on Windows XP, so cannot upgrade to IE9) used as a standard (and the only one) browser and I am dealing with the Compatibility View Mode…
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IE8 is doing my head in! I am getting completely different results in different versions of the same browser

I am developing a site & it all looks good on Safari, Chrome, Firefox, even IE7 but my client keeps telling me that IE8 is screwed up. I can only recreate the errors that he is getting by using IETester on my Windows 7 machine. My testing…
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User agent error on IE8

When I use IE8 it show error on taskbar on one of my ASP.NET pages: User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C;…
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Browser navigation, back button issue

I want to know how you guys deal with back button issues in your web applications. I can not forbid users to click back button on their browser, but when they hit it, the page code doesn't run. So writing in page_load() makes no sense. I have…
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tag wrong in IE8 only?

Why won´t my img tag work in IE8? but IN ff? and chrome? validation Output: 2 Errors Line 17, Column 47: an attribute value literal can occur in an attribute specification list only after a VI delimiter "
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IE8 Issue: PDF file is displayed as inline

I am downloading a PDF from my server. I set the "Content-Disposition" as "attachment". Its working very fine is Firefox. But in IE8 its displayed as inline. Any quick pointers to resolve this issue ? Edit: I am using Springs to write the PDF byte…
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Why would IE8 remove custom data attribute from the body element/tag?

Im having this real strange issue where IE8 isn't parsing my data attributes on the tag. For example, I have the following html: When i inspect the page in IE8 developer tools that attribute is completely…
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How to find the actual IE browser version, ignoring the document mode that it uses?

we want to stop the support for IE8, in order to do that we need to find the browser and version that the client is using (we can do it in client side using navigator.userAgent or in server side [jsp] using the User-Agent header that the client…
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What is the workaround for "getElementsByTagName" in IE8?

What is the workaround for "getElementsByTagName" in IE8?
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List item inline-block issue in IE8

I have a horizontal list of color swatches, and each list item has the following markup:
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    Page keeps entering Quirks mode on IE8 even with DOCTYPE set

    I'm trying to load my site in IE8 and it keeps reverting back to Quirks Mode and displays the page all funny. I can switch it to IE8 document mode via developer tools and it's fine, but doesn't answer why it keeps reverting to Quirks Mode by…
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    IE8 enumerating array finds an index for the prototype

    i've declared an array: var employeeBanks = [ { validFromDate: '2013-01-01', validToDate: '2013-12-31' }, { validFromDate: '2013-01-01', validToDate: '2013-12-31' }, { validFromDate: '2013-01-01', validToDate: '2013-12-31' }, …
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    Change Browser Mode to IE8 using Vbscript

    we have requirement of always opening website in IE8 browser mode (not IE8 document mode) i.e if default browser is IE10 our site should open in IE78 browser mode. I tried this code; Response.AddHeader("X-UA-Compatible", "IE=8"); in global.asax…
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