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Compatibility View is an Internet Explorer setting that allows proper user experience for websites that are designed for an earlier version of Internet Explorer.

Compatibility View is an Internet Explorer setting that allows proper user experience for websites that are designed for an earlier version of Internet Explorer. Once you turn on Compatibility View, Internet Explorer will automatically show that site in Compatibility View each time you visit. You can turn it off by removing it from your compatibility list.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2536204 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-compatibility-view#ie=ie-11

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How to disable Compatibility View in IE

I am wondering how do you stop people who are using IE 8 from going to Compatibility mode? I found this tag and I think this forces people to stay in IE-8 mode but I am not too sure and can't…
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Where's the IE7/8/9/10-emulator in IE11 dev tools?

IE11 has just been released (as a developer preview) and i cannot find the IE7/8/9/10-emulator in IE11 dev tools. Does anyone know where to find them now ?
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How to prevent IE9 from rendering intranet sites in compatibility mode

IE9 has a weird problem where it renders intranet sites in compatibility mode. Does anyone know a way how to prevent this from happening? Note: I am not looking for a way to prevent it on a single users machine, but some programmatic way to prevent…
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IE11 detect whether compatibility view is ON via javascript

does anyone know how to check if IE 11 compatibility mode is ON when I'm on a website through javascript? I added the url to the list compatibility view settings. But when I do navigator.userAgent in developer tools, it returns Mozilla/5.0…
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What's the difference between 'quirks mode' and 'compatibility mode' in IE?

I thought they were the same thing except I've just found out they are not! Using IE8 I can get the same webpage to display in 3 different ways: Standards mode. The XHTML Strict DOCTYPE is at the top of the webpage. Same as above except that…
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How can I remove the cross sign and password reveal sign in the IE 9, 8 & 7 modes of IE 10?

I tried following solution to remove "cross" & "password reveal" sign, but it works only in IE 10 mode. I want to remove "Cross" & "password revel" sign from every version mode (9, 8 & 7) of IE 10.