I have a webpage that runs in standards mode. The webpage hosts iframes linking to visitors home pages over which I have no control. I have observed that those visitors home pages which run in quirks run well as standalone , but once loaded in the inner iframe, their styles breaks up.
It appears the inner document is running in IE5 quirks!
Is there any workaround for this issue?
Short answer: No, there's no work-around, the document type is always inherited from the parent page in IE > 8.
Your options are:
a) Open the page in a new tab
b) Put your page into quirks mode
(if you do, all pages requiring non-quirksmode won't work,
that includes iframe & parent page pages)
c) Ask the site owner to please update his HTML to be standards-compliant
You can however put your main page into IE8 mode:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8" />
That however will break all pages requiring IE9+ features.
