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How to force IE10 to render page in IE9 document mode

Asked 2013-01-17T15:38:26.607
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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" >.

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I haven't seen this done before, but this is how it was done for emulating IE 8/7 when using IE 9:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE9">

If not, then try this one:

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

Add those to your header with the other meta tags. This should force IE10 to render as IE9.

Another option you could do (assuming you are using PHP) is add this to your .htaccess file:

Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=9"

This will perform the action universally, rather than having to worry about adding the meta tag to all of your headers.

answered 2013-01-17T15:44:37.537
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I found this post while I was looking for a solution to my DNN6 website. The error was

SCRIPT5007: Unable to get property 'documentElement' of undefined or null reference

But I needed the same solution: force compability mode to IE9. So let me share with you what I did to solve this.

So, for DotNetNuke 6 users try the StyleHelper SkinObject

Worked great for me!

answered 2013-06-05T10:02:41.717

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