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archana roy
archana roy

Reputation:

IE8 Compatibilty issues

How to handle IE8 compatibility issues? Please let me know if anyone has faced this problem and has some solutions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 214

Answers (2)

Phil.Wheeler
Phil.Wheeler

Reputation: 16858

That is such a vague question as to be almost unanswerable, but here are some approaches.

IE8 introduces a meta tag that you can place in your <head> element:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7">

There are also a number of tools that you can employ to help diagnose layout and rendering problems, such as Web Expression SuperPreview.

Finally, don't forget to take advantage of the IE8 Developer Tools. They get overshadowed by Firebug much of the time, but they are still quite powerful and provide some good insight into debugging your sites.

As a final word, I would suggest that in IE8, assuming your HTML and (especially) your CSS is valid (css 2.1), then the problem is likely not an IE8 compatibility issue as it is another version's problem.

Upvotes: 0

lod3n
lod3n

Reputation: 2903

If your page works okay in IE7, you can use this metatag to tell IE8 to render and behave like IE7:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" >

There are other modes available if this one is not enough to meet your needs, you can even tell it to render like IE5: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325%28VS.85%29.aspx

Upvotes: 2

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