HTML 5 w3c validation

html internet-explorer-9 w3c-validation
šljaker picture šljaker · Nov 4, 2011 · Viewed 16.8k times · Source

I validated my website using validator.w3.org

It reported the following error:

Line 5, Column 67: Bad value X-UA-Compatible for attribute http-equiv on element meta.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1" >

If I don't include that META tag, than all IE9 visitors will see my website in Quirks mode, and I want to prevent that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer

Alohci picture Alohci · Nov 4, 2011

You could always put the X-UA-Compatible setting into the actual HTTP headers instead. How you do that depends on the web server you are using, and what, if any, server-side framework you are using.

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