How to forcefully render a site in IE7 mode in IE8 using meta tag?
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Although Internet Explorer 8 supposedly follows the web standards better than its previous versions, many websites are still designed to render properly in IE7 mode and not for IE8. If one is using IE8, they can use the option Emulate IE7 so that all the sites they browse will be rendered as if they are using IE7.
But how to use the meta tag to forcefully render your site like in IE7?
Just use the following meta tag in the head section of the page.
[sourcecode language='html'][/sourcecode]
It may look like this,
[sourcecode language='html']
[/sourcecode]
We all see the new browser and cringe at the thought of how much extra work it is going to cause us with countless of hours of broken code. I am not a developer but I have to always explain to clients why the website is not working because of the browser, and clients just dont get why they have to spend money on something that we should know. I will forward this on to our developers, thanks for the head up, Goran.