IE11 always render page in Document mode EDGE on locally hosted website

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21730472

Question

In IE11, my local hosted sites always renders with Document Mode= EDGE. Technically it should use doctype IE9, because of my page doctype

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Below are steps i have preformed before posting

  1. unchecked "Display internet sites in Compatibility View" from IE, also my compatibility view list is empty.
  2. Check my machine.config,web.config(global),web.config(website). there is no Compatibility relevant configuration in them.
  3. Also there is no metadata in my page the force browser to render it in EDGE mode.

My dev environment is Windows7 64bit, ASP.net 4.5 and IIS 7.5

Thanks for reading the question.

No correct solution

OTHER TIPS

Your DOCTYPE declaration will trigger the highest mode available to the version of IE used to view the page.

To force the page to IE9 standards mode, add the following as the first line of your page's section:

<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=9">

Please note that this may not be an ideal experience in the long run. When you view the page using MS Edge, it will be rendered in Edge mode (since Edge does not support x-ua-compatible). Also, the IE9 specific features you're hoping to rely on may have been removed in a more recent version of IE.

Hope this helps...

-- Lance

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