Top "X-ua-compatible" questions

X-UA-Compatible is an IE-specific header that can be used to tell modern IE versions to use a specific IE engine to render the page.

What does <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> do?

What's the difference if one web page starts with <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <…

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"X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9; IE=8; IE=7; IE=EDGE"

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9; IE=8; IE=7; IE=EDGE" /> Actually what is the meaning of this statement ? Some …

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X-UA-Compatible is set to IE=edge, but it still doesn't stop Compatibility Mode

I am quite confused. I should be able to set <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> and IE8 …

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How to forcefully set IE's Compatibility Mode off from the server-side?

In a domain-controlled environment I'm finding that the compatibility mode is triggered on certain clients (winXP/Win7, IE8/IE9) even …

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How to disable Compatibility View in IE

I am wondering how do you stop people who are using IE 8 from going to Compatibility mode? <meta http-equiv="…

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Force IE9 to emulate IE8. Possible?

Is this possible at all? I tried adding this to the page but it didn't change a thing. <meta …

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Is it still valid to use IE=edge,chrome=1?

I read Chrome Frame closed last month, I thus tried to understand what it'd mean for the X-UA tag and …

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Force "Internet Explorer 8" browser mode in intranet

There are "Internet Explorer 8", "Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Mode", and IE7 mode in IE8. However, the default setting in IE make …

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Bad value X-UA-Compatible for attribute http-equiv on element meta

I have used the same meta that HTML5 Boilerplate is using, and the W3C HTML validator complains: Bad value …

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