Forcing Internet Explorer 9 to use standards document mode
HtmlInternet ExplorerInternet Explorer-9Quirks ModeHtml Problem Overview
How can I force Internet Explorer 9 to use standards document mode? I built a website and I'm finding that IE9 uses quirks mode to render the website pages. But I want to use standards mode for rendering.
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
<!doctype html>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge">
This makes each version of IE use its standard mode, so IE 9 will use IE 9 standards mode. (If instead you wanted newer versions of IE to also specifically use IE 9 standards mode, you would replace Edge by 9. But it is difficult to see why you would want that.)
For explanations, see http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/#ie8 (it looks rather messy, but that’s because IE is messy in its behaviors).
Solution 2 - Html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
The meta tag must be the first tag after the head tag or it will not work.
Solution 3 - Html
There is something very important about this thread that has been touched on but not fully explained. The HTML approach (adding a meta tag in the head) only works consistently on raw HTML or very basic server pages. My site is a very complex server-driven site with master pages, themeing and a lot of third party controls, etc. What I found was that some of these controls were programmatically adding their own tags to the final HTML which were being pushed to the browser at the beginning of the head tag. This effectively rendered the HTML meta tags useless.
Well, if you can't beat them, join them. The only solution that worked for me is to do exactly the same thing in the pre-render event of my master pages as such:
Private Sub Page_PreRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.PreRender
Dim MetaTag As HtmlMeta = New HtmlMeta()
MetaTag.Attributes("http-equiv") = "Content-Type"
MetaTag.Attributes("content") = "text/html; charset=utf-8;"
Page.Header.Controls.AddAt(0, MetaTag)
MetaTag = New HtmlMeta()
MetaTag.Attributes("http-equiv") = "X-UA-Compatible"
MetaTag.Attributes("content") = "IE=9,chrome=1"
Page.Header.Controls.AddAt(0, MetaTag)
End Sub
This is VB.NET but the same approach would work for any server-side technology. As long as you make sure it's the last thing that gets done right before the page is rendered.
Solution 4 - Html
put a doctype as the first line of your html document
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you can find detailed explanation about internet explorer document compatibility here: Defining Document Compatibility
Solution 5 - Html
To prevent quirks mode, define a 'doctype' like :
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
To make IE render the page in IE9 document mode :
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=9">
Please note that "IE=edge" will make IE render the page with the most recent document mode, rather than IE9 document mode.
Solution 6 - Html
Make sure you take into account that adding this tag,
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge">
may only allow compatibility with the latest versions. It all depends on your libraries
Solution 7 - Html
Make sure you use the right doctype.
eg.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
or just
<!doctype html>
and also read and understand how compatibility modes and developer toolbar for IE work and set modes for IE:
Solution 8 - Html
I tried with an alternate method:
Hit F12 key Then, at right hand side in the drop down menu, select internet explorer version 9.
That's it and it worked for me.
Solution 9 - Html
I have faced issue like my main page index.jsp contains the below line but eventhough rendering was not proper in IE. Found the issue and I have added the code in all the files which I included in index.jsp. Hurray! it worked.
So You need to add below code in all the files which you include into the page otherwise it wont work.
<!doctype html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge">
</head>