ie8-compatibility-mode

Can anyone recommend the best way to hack IE8 styling via CSS, I've recently been making IE8 render as IE7 for ease - but wondered if it was best to add IE8 hacks? You should reverse your method. First your site should look good in modern browsers (like Firefox, Chrome, Opera, IE 9), and then you can start worrying about the others. As others suggested, conditional comments can be your friend. First, you should develop your CSS to look fine in the modern browsers. Then check IE8, see what problems you get. If you need to, include an IE-specific stylesheet. After that, you can check in IE7 and

Is this possible at all? I tried adding this to the page but it didn't change a thing. <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8"> UPDATE- I'm trying to do this because our site has some IE9 specific CSS issues, which wouldn't appear in IE8. Thanks jsims281 You can use the document compatibility mode to do this, which is what you were trying.. However, thing to note is: It must appear in the Web page's header (the HEAD section) before all other elements, except for the title element and other meta elements Hope that was the issue.. Also, The X-UA-compatible header is not case sensitive

In a domain-controlled environment I'm finding that the compatibility mode is triggered on certain clients (winXP/Win7, IE8/IE9) even when we are providing a X-UA tags, a !DOCTYPE definition and "IE=Edge" response headers. These clients have the "display intranet sites in compatibility view" checkbox ticked. Which is precisely what I'm trying to override. The following is the documentation that I've used to try understand how IE decides to actually trigger the compatibility mode. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff406036%28v=VS.85%29.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2009/02/16

Possible Duplicate: Differentiate IE7 browser and browser in IE7 compatibility mode We have not had time to fully test IE8 with our fairly extensive system. We are also reaching the point at which we can't prohibit the use of IE8. Our users are stubborn and not terribly sophisticated, so we don't feel that we can tell them to use the "Compatibility Mode" button. Instead, we will add the "IE=EmulateIE7" meta tag as a temporary fix. The problem is that when this tag is used, the browser still reports itself to be IE8, which is then detected by our pages and rejected. I can understand why server

I need to know if the browser that's identifying itself via user agent string as being IE7 or IE8 is really those browsers, or whether it's IE9 in 7 or 8 compatibility mode. From what I can see in the user agent string, an IE9 in IE7 compatibility mode, provides an identical string to a real IE7. Is there an extra property/element/object that I can test to see if it's "really" IE9 in disguise? I assume the document mode won't help as the page my script is loaded into could either be forcing quirks or forcing a specific setting. I'm hoping that IE9 will have some property that exists and is