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IE 8 Compatibility View allows content designed for older web browsers to still work well in Internet Explorer 8.

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Determine if in IE8 Compatibility Mode using conditionals

I understand from my research that IE8 does annoying things like forcing itself into IE7 mode for local intranet hosts and local IP ranges. I understand from a previous question that there is no way to use conditional statements as, irrespective of…
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HTTP Meta Tags in SQL Server SSRS 2012 Web Pages

We have SQL Server 2012 with SSRS installed on Windows Server 2008. There are some issues with reports not displaying correctly unless compatibility mode is enabled in IE 10. We also have a development server with the same setup but there the…
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min-width in IE compatibility mode

Goal: Have buttons have a minimum width but expand when text is longer than min width like in the case of other languages. The problem is that in IE8 or 9 in compatibility mode, the buttons seem to move outside of their container to the right. I…
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Floated text with resizing image fails in IE8

I have the following simple example of an img and a p floated next to each other in a div. If you uncomment the last bit of CSS, the text drops below the image and stays there - but only in IE8 Standards mode. How do I get the image to resize in…
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IE8 does not support HTML5, but website is still rendered the same

I used http://www.html5test.com/ to check the compatibility of my Internet Explorer 8 browser. There are various HTML elements that aren't supported. I picked a HTML5 site (www.pusher.com) and inspect their elements. The email address field in…
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JQuery and IE8, Compatibility Mode, and IE7 Emulation

I'm working with a solution using JQuery that was developed and tested in IE8. I have a user, that had "Display all websites in Compatibility View" under Tools > Compatibility View Settings. And part of the JQuery…
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meta tags in jsp with a4j

I have a JSP page in a JSF application which uses A4J. I want to add a meta tag to put IE9 in compatibility mode. Unfortunately, this meta tag has to be the first tag in the head. A4J automatically adds some tags to the head to load its stylesheets…
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force the user's ie8 compatibility mode

Is it possible to force the client's IE8 to not be in Compatibility mode? I have a site where it looks good in compatibility mode, but of course not as good as IE8 - not to mention newer browsers. As I think about it, I believe it would not be…
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IE9 Browser Detection Showing IE8

For debugging purposes, my web application shows the user's browser, version and operating system on the bottom of every page - this is done in Javascript. In development and testing using IE9, the browser and version appear perfectly. Three…
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How to force IE9 into IE8 compatibiliy mode from *code behind*

I'm hoping to force IE9 into IE8 compatibility mode on just two pages in my site. I'm using the Kentico CMS though, so I don't have an ASPX page that I can go and modify the HEAD tag of. So I was hoping to add the META tag by using a user control or…
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Strange problem: CSS-based menu behaves differently in IE "compatibility" mode

Update: I've added a bounty to this. To claim it, I need a version of the code below that does NOT exhibit the symptoms I describe. Here's a simple test case. In Chrome, Firefox, and IE8 with compatibility mode off, this works as expected. …
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How to turn on IE8 Compatibility View programmatically

I have some JQuery in a SharePoint webpart and it is not loading properly using the Quirks Mode with IE8. It works fine with IE8 Compatibility mode. it also works great using IE7 or IE8 Standard mode but that messes up the CSS on the custom master…
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IE8 compatibility mode

I've created a website that displays correctly in all browsers including IE8 when viewed from my local server i.e. http://localhost However when I view the website from another machine, http://pc5008 for example, IE8 goes into what seems like…
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Determining IE8's Document Mode diagram is wrong, or am I missing something?

I'm kind of lost with how IE8 determines the document mode. I got contradictions. Setup This is what a generated web page header looks like on my website, please note the doctype:
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Forcing IE's Compatibility Mode off

We have an intranet site and I want to ignore the IE's compatibility mode when "display intranet sites in compatibility view" is checked. I have come across various solutions to forcefully set IE's compatibility mode off. I have tried
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