IE 8 Compatibility View allows content designed for older web browsers to still work well in Internet Explorer 8.
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IE8 compatibilty mode: scrollbar hides content
When I try the following code in IE8 compatibility mode, the scroll bar hides the content.
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min-width property having issue in IE8 Compatibility mode
Have a parent DIV with a class .list attached. Paretnt DIV consist of 8 floated divs with position:relative property.
Parent Div has min-width property, when i open the page in IE8 compatibility mode its considering the min-width property as width…
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fancybox error in IE8
I'm a new user of MVC 3 and this fancybox gives me headache..
During testing in my local computer, it runs well in firefox, chrome and IE even. But after I published it to our test server, it got an error in IE that states :
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0…
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Preventing IE from switching into Compatibility or Quirks mode
I'm developing a website and intend to support IE8 and above, so I'm not so concerned about older IE versions.
When users open the website in IE, it always jumps either to Compatibility mode or Quirks mode. Can I turn that feature off using…
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How to Conditionally apply Compatibility Mode of Browser to use 7 or 9 in asp.net?
I have a JavaScript which works in IE7, 8 Compatibility Mode, Chrome, Firefox etc. The only thing is this script doesnt work in IE8 and IE9. Any Idea?
So, i would like to set the document compatibility mode during runtime in page , section.…
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Can't force IE8 to use IE8 mode
I tried to use:
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And my website still opens (I am using IE8) in IE8 compat mode with Document Mode IE7 Standards (Page…
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Javascript program not working in Windows 7 machine
I developed a Javascript program which works fine in a Windows 8 PC but not in Windows 7.
This program has a button that allows user to choose a file and display the content in a textarea.
The webpage is tested in the following versions:
On Windows…
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Intranet sites ignoring X-UA-Compatible HTTP header
If I explicitly tell IE (still using IE8 in-house) to use GCF with the gcf prefix Chrome is activated. Downside is any links internal to the target site loose the gcf prefix thereafter. Expected.
Added X-UA-Compatible in the HTTP in Apache of…
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form falls out of div in IE compatibility mode
I have a from inside a div (with a border). This looks good on Firefox and IE 10 (not sure about older versions of IE). However, sometimes IE activates the compatibility mode and then the form (input box and submit button) fall out of the div. Is…
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IE8-Compatibility: why is a specific screwed up?
I have a wonderful website and unfortunately there is ONE (yeah, ONLY one!) problem left related to compatibility: pls. check yourself - http://podologen-symposium.de/podologen-symposium/anmeldung/ displayes fine. I'm also attaching a screenshot…
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CSS3PIE and IE8 Issues
What are your experiences with CSS3PIE and IE8, as our developers are having lots of issues with it.
It appears to work fine in Chrome and IE9, but IE8 is a different experience. We have a tab component for which css3pie styling is applied and when…
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IE and special characters
I have a weird problem with special characters "åäö" and IE 9.
If I turn on compatibility mode it shows the characters in their correct form, however I don't want to force the comp. mode on the user. Why is this always a solution?
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IE7 / IE8 Compatibility mode specific CSS
We recently redesigned our public-facing site, however one item was not fully communicated.
A certain portion of our site uses some of the newer display types in CSS. This looks fine in almost all browsers, but not in IE8's compatibility mode or in…
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IE css issues with news roller
We have a news roller here http://www.businesseventsydney.com.au/home-page-test.cfm in the right nav column. It works great in FF and Chrome, but in IE, news stories are running into each other.
Can someone shed any light on what may be going wrong…
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Is there a way to disable compatibility mode in IE8, if already enabled?
I'm "sunsetting" the IE7 support for a web app, and I don't want IE8 users to see an "oops, you are using an old browser" warning.
If an IE8 user has already clicked the compatibility mode button, is there a way for a web page to immediately disable…
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