IE8 forcing document mode as IE7 standards

Question

For my webapplication I am using IE8 as a standard browser.Sometimes the browser is setting Document mode as IE-7 Standards.

I have already tried Servlet Headers as IE=8,IE=edge and all other settings,also my DOCTYPE is also proper.

Does anyone knows why IE is forcing such behaviour ?

check your doctype properly. if it is not correct. then it will force to quirk mode. — naresh kumar, Mar 06 '13 at 10:51

giammin · Answer 1 · 2013-03-06T10:58:49.390

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You can force IE to use compatibility mode with X-UA-Compatible Meta Tag:

IE 7:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=7">

IE 8:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=8">

IE 9:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=9">

IE look also at the page DOCTYPE:

Standards View

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>This page is NOT Rendered in Compatibility View</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>This page is NOT Compatibility View</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Compatibility View

<html>
  <head>
    <title>This page is NOT Rendered in Compatibility View</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>This page is NOT Compatibility View</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Standards View

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>This page is NOT Rendered in Compatibility View</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>This page is NOT Compatibility View</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Compatibility View

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>This page is NOT Rendered in Compatibility View</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>This page is NOT Compatibility View</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Note, that last example should load as standards view in XHTML mode. But Internet Explorer interprets that XML declaration as requiring compatibility view.

edited Mar 06 '13 at 10:58

answered Mar 06 '13 at 10:49

giammin

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Here is the Meta Tag :- and this is Doctype – Magician Mar 06 '13 at 10:51
@Magician in the head section – giammin Mar 06 '13 at 10:52
yeah I have added that Meta Tag .There is no other meta tag.If I change the Document Mode manually It is working but somehow sometimes I am getting the same issue.I have checked all the things even Code also verified so as such there are no code level mistakes. – Magician Mar 06 '13 at 10:55
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@Magician are you using XHTML? – giammin Mar 06 '13 at 10:59
@Magician have you seen my examples? – giammin Mar 06 '13 at 11:18
yes :) I already explored almost all possible solutions for the same unfortunately nothing is working for me... – Magician Mar 06 '13 at 11:48
This doesn't always work if the server is set differently. You need to edit the httpd.conf file possibly... – jasonflaherty Mar 25 '13 at 17:39
@buildakicker we don't know wich server Magician is using. Anyway good point! – giammin Mar 25 '13 at 17:42
@giammin good point :) However, if nothing else fixes it... then that is the fix. – jasonflaherty Mar 25 '13 at 18:11
Check doctype, meta tag, and also LAN pref: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2597406/819417 – Cees Timmerman Oct 03 '13 at 15:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 22 '14 at 21:44

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I resolved similar issue like this:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8,IE=9,IE=10,chrome=1" />

Take into account IE version should start from the lowest version.

answered Apr 22 '14 at 21:44

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