So I am having problems getting IE8 to not default to IE7 document mode, as our intranet is set up.

I am using IE dev tools to set plus a little bit of js to check what the browser is reporting the document mode to be.

I won't be able to change any settings other than what markup I can give. In otherwords I'm not an admin, the only control I have is within the browser.

I have tried:

<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=8">

But this does not change how the document mode is reported, it still reported as IE7.

JS Fiddle

internet-explorer internet-explorer-8 ie8-compatibility-mode compatibility-mode
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