Hopefully this question isn't as subjective as I think it may be. I have an Intranet application which needs to work with IE8 as the enterprise is replacing IE6 as the standard browser. Our testing team found that it did not work in IE8, little did they know that it actually did. Their browsers were set to run IE8 in compatibility mod...
There are "Internet Explorer 8", "Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Mode", and IE7 mode in IE8. However, the default setting in IE make all intranet website use "IE8 Compatibility Mode" even I have setted doctype, the meta tag, http header as suggested to force it into IE8 mode. I have <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 T...
hi, is debugging in compatibility mode in IE8 exactly the same than debugging in IE7 ? do the websites display exactly the same ? So I don't need IE7 for testing if I have IE8 ? thanks ...
I am trying to create a border around an image on the page, and the border works fine in IE8 Normal mode, but fills to 100% of the outer div in IE8 compatibility mode, my css is the following: .page-layout .page-header .page-image { float:left; vertical-align:top; width:170px; } .page-layout .page-header .page-image div, .page-...
ghost noscript tag more info here I am facing exactly this issue, how shall I handle this for Internet Explorer browsers :-( ? Explanation: I have included the following noscript tag in my application's layout <noscript style="background:#ffcc00;font-size:200%;font-family:verdana;text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:b...
I'm working on a web app in ASP (although as far as I can tell this is purely a rendering issue). We have a page, where the body has a min-width set, but the content is pretty close to the width anyway. The page contains a "popup", which is an absolutely-positioned div. The div has top, left and right offsets of 100px. It also has a mi...
Although I'm specifying <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> But due to IE's "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" setting, my app isn't being viewed in IE8, but in compatibility mode. Anyone know if there is a way round this??? ...
I have a layout issue which is due to the containing page being rendered in compatibility mode on IE8. Is there a way to detect whats causing IE8 to enter compatibility mode for a particular page? According to Microsoft's documents, the following conditions can cause a page to be rendered in compatibility mode (http://msdn.microsoft.co...
In IE 8, we can bring out the Developer Tools. Then on top, there is a Browser Mode: IE 7 IE 8 IE 8 Compatibility View So if IE 7 is to force the page to be shown as if the browser is IE 7, and IE 8 is to force the page to be shown using the standard IE 8 as it is, then what is the extra IE 8 "Compatibility View" for? What use is it...
It seems that when the webpage has <meta content='IE=EmulateIE7' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible' /> so that IE 8 will emulate IE 7, then later in the webpage, when there is <!--[if lt IE 8]> <link href="http://www.example.com/stylesheets/compiled/ie.css" type="text/css" /> <![endif]--> then it will also be loading ie.css? That is...
If I serve a page using <meta content='IE=EmulateIE7' http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible'> using HTML 4.01 strict, and load this page into IE 8, then the IE 8's Developer Tools shows that it is using: Browser Mode: IE 8 Document Mode: IE 7 Standards Well then, is IE 8 using partly IE 8 engine and partly IE 7 engine? Which part is IE ...
I was doing some tests on IE 8 on a standards-compliant page, with a strict doctype: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> However, apparently the page was being rendered in "IE 8 compat view"/"IE7 standards", which was breaking the layout. After looking around, I discovered that...
Hi, I understand from my research that IE8 does annoying things like forcing itself into IE7 mode for local intranet hosts and local IP ranges. I understand from a previous question that there is no way to use conditional statements as, irrespective of whether IE8 is rendering in IE8 or IE7 mode, it will still only use the <!--[if IE 8]...
First off, I am running my website in IE7 Compatability mode with the following code. <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" > I have a web page that has a gridview with a link button in it. When I click the link button a new page opens in a seperate window(or tab). However once I do this, the original page is no l...
Hi, I'm trying to setup compatibility mode in one of our web products however I cannot get compatiblity mode to work via a particular server. To recount what I've done so far: I've set the the HTTP header X-UA-Compatible in IIS to IE=7 I've set also addded the meta element as the first element in the head element to the master page: ...
As I understand it you can tell the IE8 (and I assume later versions) how to best render your page. This is useful because the page may have been designed for IE7, quirks mode or to target IE8 standards mode. As I have it, the default behaviour for IE8 when it encounters a page is to render in IE8 standards mode (not sure how it interpr...
I have a some Chinese characters that I'm trying to display on a Kentico-powered website. This text is copy/pasted into Kenticos FCK editor, and is then saved and appears on the site. In Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, the characters appear exactly as expected. In IE 8 Standards mode, I see only boxes. The text is UTF-8 encoded, and as ...
I have created a drop down menu with CSS which works great in Firefox, Chrome and IE8, but fails when when in IE8 compatibility mode. When you try to mouse over the drop down menu, it disappears. You can see this issue in action at: http://chocolat.digitaldementia.ca/chocolat. I have spent the last 4 days trying to find a fix for this pr...
I'm hosting MSIE in a winforms form. Unfortunately it insists on running in compatibility mode regardless of if I give it a page that runs in IE8 mode in stand-alone IE. The effect of that is that some content that renders correctly in stand-alone MSIE gets completely mis-aligned and messed up in the hosted control. Besides document typ...
I've read a bunch of previous posts dealing with the padding problem I'm experiencing between IE8 and earlier versions (IE7,6). I already tried resetting my CSS as mentioned previously, but no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! The issue is best illustrated with screenshots (see below), but in the css I'v...