Tag: ie8

Order DOES matter when it comes to EmulateIE7!

So, here's the story in a nutshell: IE8 breaks some pages that were made with Visual Studio. Specifically, GridView headers won't align themselves left or right, even though you set the option. Bringing IE8 into compatibility mode fixes the problem. Microsoft implemented a meta tag that allows you to bring down IE8 into compatibility mode …

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Javascript/Compatibility trick for IE8

While researching the different compatibility modes in Internet Explorer 8 I found this cool thing that you can paste into the address bar and it will tell you what compatibility version the browser is using on the current page: javascript:alert(document.documentMode);