How to set IE11 Document mode to edge as default

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I have Internet Explorer installed on my computer but needed to test compatibility mode of IE 7  After changing the document mode to IE 7  it set it as default and now I can t change it  The default is stuck on IE 7      How do I set Document mode default

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The rendering mode in Internet Explorer 11 can appear stuck if the site is added to your local Compatibility View list. When this happens, the rendering mode inside the developer tools and out will default to the specified compatibility settings.

While this may not be the only way a site can get on this list, Microsoft does document the steps for how to manually add a site to this list.

From Fix site display problems with Compatibility View:

To add a site to the Compatibility View list

Open the desktop, and then tap or click the Internet Explorer icon on the taskbar.

Tap or click the Tools button, and then tap or click Compatibility View settings.

Under Add this website, enter the URL of the site you want to add to the list, and then tap or click Add.

Site Compatibility View Removal Instructions:

To remove a site from this list, follow these instructions.

Go to Tools > Compatibility View settings.
In the resulting dialog, click on the site you want to remove from the list.
Click the Remove button.

Screenshots:

Tools - Compatibility View settings

Compatibility View settings dialog

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try to add this section in your web config file on web server  sometimes it happens with php pages    lt httpProtocol gt       lt customHeaders gt           lt clear   gt           lt add name  X-UA-Compatible  value  IE edge    gt       lt  customHeaders gt   lt  httpProtocol gt

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I ve come across this problem myself  In my case  resetting IE was the quickest solution to the problem   http   support microsoft com kb 923737

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I was having the same problem while developing my own website  While it was resident locally  resources opened as file    For pages from the internet  including my own loaded as http     the F12 Developer did use Edge as default  but not while they were loaded into IE11 from local files   After following the suggestions above  I unchecked the box for  Display intranet Sites in Compatibility View    That did the trick without adding any extra coding to my web page  or adding a multitude of pages to populate the list  Now all local files open in Edge document mode with F12   So if you are referring to using F12 for locally hosted files  this may help

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unchecked the  Automatically detect settings  in the Local Area Network Settings  found in  Internet Options    Connections   LAN Settings

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We may need to delete the REG DWORD value for iexplore exe under the registry editor to modify and change the default document mode to Edge or IE11  Open the registry editor using regedit exe and follow the below mentioned paths to find the configuration in registry  For 32 bit windows machine  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE  gt  SOFTWARE  gt  Microsoft  gt  Internet Explorer  gt  Main  gt  FeatureControl  gt  FEATURE BROWSER EMULATION For 64 bit windows machine  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE  gt  SOFTWARE  gt  Microsoft  gt  Internet Explorer  gt  Main  gt  FeatureControl  gt  FEATURE BROWSER EMULATION and HKEY LOCAL MACHINE  gt  SOFTWARE  gt  WOW6432Node  gt  Microsoft  gt  Internet Explorer  gt  Main  gt  FeatureControl  gt  FEATURE BROWSER EMULATION Delete the REG DWORD value iexplore exe  Now close the browser and relaunch the website using Internet Explorer 11  it will default to Edge as Document Mode  Ref  https   www ibm com support pages ie11-document-mode-defaults-ie7-how-reset

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I ran into this problem with a particular webpage I was maintaining  No matter what settings I changed  it kept going back to IE8 compatibility mode   It turned out X-UA-Compatible was set in the metadata in the head    lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE 8   gt    As I later discovered  and at least in Internet Explorer 11  you can see where it gets its  document mode  from  by going into developer tools  F12   then selecting the tab  Emulation   and checking the text below the drop down  Document mode     Since we only support IE11 and higher  and Microsoft says document modes are deprecated  I just threw the whole thing out  That solved it

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You can achieve this using a meta tag as follows    lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE edge chrome 1    gt

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