HOWTO: Force IE 7 rendering in IE 8

If you haven’t checked how your web­site looks like in Inter­net Explorer 8 this might be the time to do that, lat­est ver­sion of  Microsoft’s browser have slightly dif­fer­ent engine which can cause your site to be unus­able. This code shows how to force Inter­net Explorer 8 to act like Inter­net Explorer 7 which reduces the amount of css and html tweaks you may need to add in order to have cross browser website.

code:

Add this code to head ele­ment of your html page


<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at 8:00 PM and is filed under HTML. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

3 comments

  1. Georg
    20/09/2009 at 12:21 PM

    You do know that your code dis­play pre­vents me from see­ing what goes in the “con­tent” attribute?

  2. eugene
    20/09/2009 at 12:47 PM

    Yep, this is how the code plu­gin works. To view the code please click on the “<>” icon that blocks the content.

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