My Internet Explorer 11 on my Windows 8.1 Surface tablet defaults to document mode 7, causing a lot of websites to render wrongly.
When I open the Developer tools, it states that it defaults to document mode 7 because of Intranet-compatibility settings.
However, I haven't changed these settings manually and I'm browsing Internetpages!
I tried to reset the Internet Explorer settings without any luck.
Any ideas?
This question is related to
internet-explorer
compatibility
internet-explorer-11
If you are a developer, this is what you need to do:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
Thanks to all the investigations of Lance, I could find a solution to my problem. It possibly had to do with my ISP.
To summarize:
I unchecked the "Automatically detect settings" in the Local Area Network Settings (found in "Internet Options" > Connections > LAN Settings.
Now the sites are correctly marked as Internet sites (instead of Intranet sites).
If the problem is happening on a specific computer,then please try the following fix provided you have Internet Explorer 11.
Please open regedit.exe as an Administrator. Navigate to the following path/paths:
For 32 bit machine:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
For 64 bit machine:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION &
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
And delete the REG_DWORD value iexplore.exe.
Please close and relaunch the website using Internet Explorer 11, it will default to Edge as Document Mode.
By default, IE displays webpages in the Intranet zone in compatibility view. To change this:
At this point, IE should rely on the webpage itself (or any relevant group policies) to determine the compatibility settings for your Intranet webpages.
Note that certain sites may no longer function correctly after making this change. You can use the same dialog box to add specific sites to enable compatibility view when needed.
For the website ensure that IIS HTTP response headers setting and add new key X-UA-Compatible pointing to "IE=edge"
If you have access to the server, the most reliable way of doing this is to do it on the server itself, in IIS. Go in to IIS HTTP Response Headers. Add Name: X-UA-Compatible Value: IE=edge This will override your browser and your code.
Source: Stackoverflow.com
