Why Does IE-8 push the view to Compact/Compatibility view?

Question

This is my header

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en-gb" dir="ltr" >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />

and when I view my webpage on ie8, it pushes the Browser mode to Compact/Computability view and break the styles of my webpage. Why does it do it? I did try looking for an answer on Google and StackOverflow, but still cant figure out. Please help guys. Thanks

Have you validated the document? Try commenting content to isolate the issue. — Matt Whipple, Oct 18 '12 at 02:47
@MattWhipple Thanks. The validation looks alright except few css errors. — nasty, Oct 18 '12 at 05:42
I don't suppose you could post a more complete example of the site markup, or put up a test version somewhere? — Tieson T., Oct 18 '12 at 05:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '12 at 05:38

The code posted should put IE into “standards mode” and does that in normal testing, but there are oddities in IE 8 in choosing the mode, such as being affected by blacklisting. Perhaps the most common explanation to problems like this that the user has selected Compatibility View for some page in the domain. This makes IE 8 show all pages from that domain (server) in “compatibility mode”. To fix this, select compatibility view settings in the “Tools” menu and remove the domain from the list.

Thanks. But I cant really access my client's website's settings and they dont want me to . They want this fixed without touching their browser settings. — nasty, Oct 18 '12 at 05:40

Why Does IE-8 push the view to Compact/Compatibility view?

1 Answers1

Linked