asked on 9/13/2013

Forcing IE 10 to IE 9 mode.

Our application runs in IE 10 mode, but a 3rd party server we access to display documents in an Iframe does not. We have found by using the Developer Tools that if we set the Browser Mode to IE 10 compat mode and Document Mode: IE9 that both our app and the 3rd Party is happy.

However, IE 10 seems entirely resistant to metatags in the web page:
<meta http-equiv="X-US-Compatible" content="IE9" />

or even registry changes:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\mail\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
iexplorer.exe = 9999 (decimal)

Running IE 10 on Win 7 or Win 2008 R2

Internet Protocols .NET Programming ASP.NET

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NJThomson

9/18/2013

Ironhoofs

9/13/2013

It looks like you misspelled the http-equiv: "X-US-Compatible" instead of "X-UA-Compatible".

Please try the following:

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

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NJThomson

9/13/2013

ASKER

Miss-typed the question (and can't edit).

Actually we've tried the following variations - with no impact.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE9"/>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9"/>

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Ironhoofs

9/13/2013

My guess would be that you use a doctype declaration. According to various sources, IE10 will disregard the "x-ua-compatible" tag if a doctype declaration is found. Removing the doctype declaration should fix this.

For more information:
IE10 and X-UA-Compatible
IE Dev Center: Specifying legacy document modes

NJThomson

9/18/2013

ASKER

We resolved the problem ourselves from other various posts around the web.

We've included solved the problem and other things we learned in the last comment