How do I disable downlevel rendering in ASP.NET?

Question

How do I disable downlevel rendering of my ASP.NET 2.0 site?

I have a single master-page that all the other pages inherit from, and do not want "downlevel"-versions of the server-controls to be sendt to Google and W3C-validators. The best thing would be if this feature could be disabled for all users on all pages on my site.

Answer 1

There's a native component and some config possibilities for this.

Googling "browser capabilities" or "browsercaps" throws up some good links, but here's a couple of solid ones from MSDN.

• ASP.NET Web Server Controls and Browser Capabilities

• browserCaps Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

Answer 2

There are a number of ways to do this.

At the page level (either declaratively or in code) you can use the ClientTarget property of the page:

ClientTarget="Uplevel" // Will force to IE6 capabilities.

Alternatively as Annakata's just posted, using a browser caps setting

Answer 3

While glancing over the SO frontpage, I read this question as "How do I disembowel..."

I think I need to take a deep breath and get off this bug for a while...