Force IE8 Into IE7 Compatiblity Mode

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Is there a way to force IE8 into IE7 compatibility mode using  NET or Javascript

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This can be done in IIS  http   weblogs asp net joelvarty archive 2009 03 23 force-ie7-compatibility-mode-in-ie8-with-iis-settings aspx  Read the comments as well  Wednesday  April 01  2009 8 57 AM by John Moore  A quick follow-up   This worked great for my site as long as I use the IE EmulateIE7 value   Trying to use the IE 7 resulted in my site essentially hanging when run on IE8

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one more if you want to switch IE 8 page render in IE 8 standard mode   lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE 100    gt   lt  -- IE8 mode -- gt

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If you add this to your meta tags    lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE EmulateIE7    gt    IE8 will render the page like IE7

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There is an HTTP header you can set that will force IE8 to use IE7-compatibility mode

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I might have found it now   http   blog lroot com articles the-ie7-compatibility-tag-force-ie8-to-use-the-ie7-rendering-mode   The site says adding this meta tag    lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE EmulateIE7  gt    or adding this to  htaccess  Header set X-UA-Compatible  IE EmulateIE7

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A note to this   IE 8 0s emulation only promises to display the page the same  There are subtle differences that might cause functionality to break  I recently had a problem with just that  Where IE 7 0 uses a javascript wrapper-function called  anonymous    in IE 8 0 the wrapper was named differently   So do not expect things like JavaScript to  just work   because you turn on emulation

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my code has this tag   meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE 7      is there a way where i can skip this tag and yet layouts get displayed well and fine using that tag the display will work upto IE 7 but i want to run it wel in further versions

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its even simpler than that  Using HTML you can just add this metatag to your page  first thing on the page     lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE 7    gt    If you wanted to do it using net  you just have to send your http request with that meta information in the header   This would require a page refresh to work though   Also  you can look at a similar question here  Compatibility Mode in IE8 using VBScript

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You can do it in the web config       lt httpProtocol gt           lt customHeaders gt               lt add name  X-UA-Compatible  value  IE 7   gt           lt  customHeaders gt       lt  httpProtocol gt    I have better results with this over the above solutions  Not sure why this wasn t given as a solution

[internet-explorer] Force IE8 Into IE7 Compatiblity Mode

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