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Asked: 2026-05-13T07:39:49+00:00

I am getting a really strange behaviour when viewing a very simple piece of

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I am getting a really strange behaviour when viewing a very simple piece of HTML in IE, served up by IIS. I am at a loss to explain this…

Take the following html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>
  <head>
    <style>
      .iWantaBorder
      { 
        border:red solid 1px ;  
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <select class="iWantaBorder">
  <option>1</option>
    </select>
  </body>
</html>

Save as html file to your desktop.
When viewed in IE8, the select menu has a red border.

Now copy the file to a website or virtual directory in IIS 5.1 or IIS6.

Browse to that file in IE8… no red border.

Can anyone tell me what is going on here? I really want a border on this menu. Thought this should be simple to be honest, but I’m pretty much confused!

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  1. Editorial Team

    try putting this in your HEAD tag:

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

    as per: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325%28VS.85%29.aspx

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