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IE8 and Defining Document Compatibility

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(VS.85).aspx

Whenever you need to define compatibility on a page you are most likely going to be defining it for IE7. Therefore, you will be using the following statement:

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

One thing that I have noticed, though, is that you need to make sure that this appears before other meta tags. It is ok if it is placed after the <title> element in the head, but it really should be before all other elements in the head. This is just an oddity that I have noticed with IE8 Beta 1.

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#1 Robert McLaws on 3.10.2008 at 9:48 PM

The other way to do it is to add it as an http header to the IIS properties... if you have access to do so.\

BTW, you should add it on here... the header is rendering all weird in IE8.

#2 Wyatt Lyon Preul on 3.11.2008 at 9:45 AM

Thanks Robert. Also, the code for the web.config that is on msdn doesn't have the proper closing tags, just so you know. I plan to update the site to include the tag.

Robert, what is the URL to your site?

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