Winform webbrowser control not rendering in IE8 mode in a machine having IE9

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I have IE9 installed in my machine(Windows 7), when i run winform webbrowser control with registry key 8000 (SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION) for current user on a 32 bit machine. i can still see winform webbrowser control rendering in IE9 mode, I am expecting it to render with IE8 compatibility mode.

With IE10 in my machine and with same registry settings, i can see , the page is rendered in IE8 compatibility mode. But we have to support IE8, IE9 and IE10. Most of the users are on IE9 .

So how to make winform webbrowser control in a machine having IE9 to render in IE8 compatibility mode. Please help

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/926395/winform-webbrowser-control-not-rendering-in-ie8-mode-in-a-machine-having-ie9 — Niranjan Reddy, Jul 23 '14 at 05:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '14 at 10:14

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There are two solutions for this. Please check this link to more details.

1) Change Registry to use IE 9 or your latest IE version in WPF Browser control. 2) Add Meta tag to web page which IE version should used to render.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content=" IE=edge " >
or
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" >

answered Jul 22 '14 at 10:14

Sampath

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Pls read my question again. i want my webbrowser control to render in IE8 mode with IE9 installed in my machine. I had applied registry settings, Still not working. – Niranjan Reddy Jul 22 '14 at 11:34
Did you try with registry value 8888? – Sampath Jul 22 '14 at 12:02
Yes. still not rendering in IE8 mode. – Niranjan Reddy Jul 22 '14 at 12:24

Winform webbrowser control not rendering in IE8 mode in a machine having IE9

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