How to force IE10 to render page in IE9 document mode

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Amit picture Amit · Jan 17, 2013 · Viewed 129k times · Source

I have two questions:

  1. How can I force IE10 to render in IE9 document mode? Currently it's rendering my page in Standard document mode.

  2. In IE10's developer toolbar, I am not able to see the option of document mode of IE10. Is it not implemented, or is my browser version is out of date?

Thanks for all your help.

Edit: thanks everyone for the solutions provided. Earlier I was using a meta tag <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=edge" > just to make sure that IE will render the page in highest document mode, but I was facing some issues with IE10 standard mode, so I changed the meta tag to render the page in IE9 mode: <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=9" >.

Answer

Shauna picture Shauna · Jan 17, 2013

You should be able to do it using the X-UA meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />

However, if you find yourself having to do this, you're probably doing something wrong and should take a look at what you're doing and see if you can do it a different/better way.

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