How do I force Internet Explorer to render in Standards Mode and NOT in Quirks?
I am coding a Frontend which works well in IE7 Standards Mode and IE8 Standards Mode.
When I start up Internet Explorer and load the page both IE7 and IE8 go to Quirks Mode directly. How can I force both IE7 and IE8 to always load the page in Standards Mode?
I have no special meta tags added so far.
Thanks for helping me out
Edit: My doctype and head looks as follows at the moment:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="de">
<head>
<title>...</title>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<script src="js/html5.js"></script>
(...)
</head>
Answer
This is the way to be absolutely certain :
<!doctype html> <!-- html5 -->
<html lang="en"> <!-- lang="xx" is allowed, but NO xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", lang:xml="", and so on -->
<head>
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=Edge"/>
<!-- as the **very** first line just after head-->
..
</head>
Reason :
Whenever IE meets anything that conflicts, it turns back to "IE 7 standards mode", ignoring the x-ua-compatible.
(I know this is an answer to a very old question, but I have struggled with this myself, and above scheme is the correct answer. It works all the way, everytime)