IE11 Document mode defaults to IE7 How to reset

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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

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If you are a developer  this is what you need to do    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html lang  en  gt   lt head gt       lt meta http-equiv  X-UA-Compatible  content  IE edge    gt

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For the website ensure that IIS HTTP response headers setting and add new key X-UA-Compatible pointing to  IE edge   Click here for more details  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

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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    Internet sites were displayed in the Intranet zone Because of that the document mode was defaulted to 5 or 7 instead of Edge   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

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By default  IE displays webpages in the Intranet zone in compatibility view   To change this    Press Alt to display the IE menu  Choose Tools   Compatibility View settings Remove the checkmark next to Display intranet sites in Compatibility View  Choose Close    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

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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  amp   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

[internet-explorer] IE11 Document mode defaults to IE7. How to reset?

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