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Ieblog.members.winisp.net/misc/How IE9 Determines Document Mode.svg. IE compatible mode – DEVIL for Web Designers and Developers | tips4developer. Css - How to apply -webkit-gradient to IE. Meta Tag For Forcing IE 8 to Behave Like IE 7. 10 ways to make Internet Explorer act like a modern browser. Enable HTML5 on IE Ever heard about HTML5? If you’re interested in web development, there’s no doubt about it. For those who doesn’t know, HTML5 is the next major revision of HTM; the core markup language of the World Wide Web. Most modern browser can already handle, at least partially, the new HTML5 recommendations.

But as Internet Explorer isn’t well known for its sense of innovation, it will simply ignore the markup. The html5.js is a very interesting project which aim to make Internet Explorer HTML5 compatible. The only thing you have to do is to embed the html5.js script in your html document header. » Source : Use the text-shadow CSS property on IE Due to the recent implementation of the text-shadow CSS property in Firefox 3.5, designers started to use it quite intensively. If you’d like to learn more about the text-shadow property, don’t forget to check out our list of resources to get the most out of the text-shadow property. How to Enable IE 8 Compatibility View for your whole Web site or for specific Web site directories - Deviations. With the release of Internet Explorer 8, many customer sites suddenly had rendering errors and problems displaying the site correctly.

In order to avoid expensive and time consuming corrections Internet Explorer 8 has a new functionality called Compatibility View which enables the browser to emulate Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View The question many customers asked is ”How can I force the client browser to use the Compatibility View when they visit our site? So that the customer doesn’t have to activate it on the client side.” Web Developers and Site Administrators can configure IIS and their sites to tell Internet Explorer 8 to automatically Emulate Internet Explorer 7 when they visit their site or just specific WebPages. X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7 Add the custom HTTP response header in IIS Start IIS Manager.

9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them. Internet Explorer - the bane of most web developers' existence. Up to 60% of your development can be wasted just trying to squash out IE specific bugs which isn't really a productive use of your time. In this tutorial, you are going to learn about the most common IE bugs and rendering disparities and how to easily squash them or deal with them. Interested? Let's get started. 1. Centering a Layout Centering an element is probably something every web developer has to do while creating a layout. Consider the Following Code: The output you'd expect: But what IE actually gives you: This is mainly due to IE6 in quirks mode and below not recognizing the auto value we set to the margin property. The Fix The easiest and most reliable way to center content for IE6 and below is to apply text-align: center to the parent element and then apply text-align: left to the element to be centered to make sure the text within it is aligned properly. 2.

A standard compliant browser renders it like so: Fix #1 Fix #2. Internet Explorer & CSS issues. CSS has come a long way since we wrote this article one decade ago. Check out our latest article on where we see CSS going in 2016! Trying to get CSS-based websites to look the same across all browsers can often be difficult.

Many of the problems however lie with Internet Explorer implementing CSS commands differently to other, more standards compliant browsers. All is not lost, however, as many of the differences you see across browsers are caused by the same Internet Explorer CSS issues... 1. Page elements are narrower in Internet Explorer Perhaps the most famous IE and CSS problem is Internet Explorer's misinterpretation of the CSS box model, which can cause page elements to be narrower in IE. This means that each div is 50em wide in total. In IE however, the border and padding are included in the width of the content, as opposed to added on.

This CSS box model problem occurs in IE5.x, and can occur in IE6, depending on how you declare the ISO value in the HTML code. 2. Example text 3. IE7 Recalculated Offset Bug | CSS Class. IE7 now has support for dynamic pseudo classes :hover and is commonly used for the purpose of hiding elements from view and bringing them back into view when a ancestor element is hovered over, but the support is buggy depending on the property and values used for either hiding the elements or for bringing them back into view. Setup: Container Absolutely Positioned Element What we have above is a container element containing an absolutely positioned element. <div class="container">Container <div class="absolute">Absolutely Positioned Element</div></div> In the below examples, the absolutely positioned element is hidden from view by the normal position value and brought back into view by the hover position value.

Example 1: a.p element: normal position left:-999em; - hover position left:auto; Example 2: a.p element: normal position left:-999em; - hover position left:0; Example 3: a.p element: normal position left:-999em; - hover position left:auto; margin-left:0%; Example 4: Example 5: Example 6: IE CSS Bugs. IE 6 actually had the best CSS support of any browser when it first came out... SEVEN YEARS AGO. The little bugs in it's CSS support still haunt us to this day. I still get comments from people who roundly reject any technique that doesn't work in IE 6. While I generally refuse to pander to IE 6's limitations, I still feel it is important to make things look right in it whenever possible.

Here are that major bugs in IE that'll get you every time: The Box Model This is perhaps the most common and frustrating bug of all in IE 6 and below. IE 6 will calculate the width of the box to be 100px. This kind of discrepancy can cause HUGE layout problems. I generally work around this issue by just not using padding on boxes I am using for layout. The Double Margin Bug Using our box example from above, let's say we need that floated to the right: IE 6 will double the 20px to 40px. I also like to side-step this bug whenever possible. No Min Widths / Min Height Stepdown No Hover States So... Share On.