Force IE compatibility mode off using tags

Question

I am doing work for a client who forces compatibility mode on all intranet sites. I was wondering if there is a tag I can put into my HTML that forces compatibility mode off

Answer 1

If you're working with a page in the Intranet Zone, you may find that IE9 no matter what you do, is going into IE7 Compat mode.

This is due to the setting within IE Compatibility settings which says that all Intranet sites should run in compatibility mode. You can untick this via a group policy (or just plain unticking it in IE), or you can set the following:

This works (as detailed in other answers), but may not initially appear so: it needs to come before the stylesheets are declared. If you don't, it is ignored.