How to target IE=EmulateIE7 for IE8 only?

Question

Now that IE9 has come out, I noticed that the IE=EmulateIE7 trick also affects it. How can I make it target IE8 only??

So far I tried conditional comments

<!--[if IE 8]>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" >
 <![endif]-->

But for some reason it does not work (maybe conditional comments dont work with meta tags?). Anyone have any idea?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

3

Use the dual mode:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7, IE=EmulateIE9">

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

Community

answered Jun 01 '11 at 09:14

meo

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '11 at 10:12

3

I've read that using a semi-colon as the separator doesn't work, and that you should use commas instead, i.e:

content="IE=EmulateIE7, IE=EmulateIE9"

and NOT:

content="IE=EmulateIE7; IE=EmulateIE9"

answered Jun 30 '11 at 10:12

Dan

Can I use httpd.conf for dual mode. Right now I use like Header add X-UA-Compatible IE=EmulateIE7 Pl. check the question I have asked http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13189817/how-do-i-set-different-options-for-x-ua-compatible-in-apache-for-ie8-and-ie9 – ppant Nov 02 '12 at 09:11

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