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Website not working correctly with Internet Explorer 8?
Microsoft are in the process of developing Internet Explorer 8 and, in the future, are likely to automatically update Windows operating systems to use Internet Explorer 8 by default, Most users are currenty using Internet Explorer 7.
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) supports additional HTML and CSS standards that are not supported in previous versions of Internet Explorer. This also means that some websites will behave slightly differently in IE8 than they will if using a previous version of the web browser.
More information on the changes in IE8 can be found at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc817593.aspx.
Symptoms may include:
- Menus, images or text may appear to be displayed in the wrong place.
- Website features may not work.
- Scripting error messages may be displayed.
- Internet Explorer stops responding or working on your website.
If your website exhibits any of these symptoms with IE8, but works fine with other web browsers, you can add a meta tag to your website that instructs Internet Explorer 8 to display your web page in an “Internet Explorer 7″ emulation mode.
Running a webpage in IE7 Emulation Mode
Add the following code to your HTML code to tell Internet Explorer 8 to display your page in IE7 emulation mode.
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=7″>
This meta tag should be entered immediately after the <head> tag to run correctly.
for example:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=7″>
<title>My Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p> My web page content. </p>
</body>
</html>
More information regarding the different compatibility modes of IE8 can be found at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(VS.85).aspx
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