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Asked: 2026-06-08T04:05:35+00:00

I’m in a completely disastrous situation right now. According to Google Analytics, 96% of

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I’m in a completely disastrous situation right now.

According to Google Analytics, 96% of the users to my site are on Chrome & Firefox. However, we have one very important client coming on board at the beginning of next week … and their entire organization will be using Internet Explorer.

I need some way of quickly making the core features of my site IE compatible. I can pay a consulting company if that is necessary, but I don’t know the first thing about making my site IE compatible – I don’t know the IE development tools and I don’t know the first thing as to why IE doesn’t render things properly.

What’s the best way to go about solving my problem? I don’t even see a firebug / inspect element equivalent for IE. I only will worry about IE 9 for now – this company is on the latest IE for sure.

Let me know, I’m totally panicked!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Below is my suggestion.

    1. IE tester is a great tool to test your site across all IE
      versions.

    2. Consider using specific tags target IE. Like:

      <!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html lang="en" class="no-js ie6"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]>    <html lang="en" class="no-js ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]>    <html lang="en" class="no-js ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9 ]>    <html lang="en" class="no-js ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gt IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--><html lang="en" class="no-js"><!--<![endif]-->

    3. Consider using modernizer if your site uses HTML5 or CSS3.

    4. If your site uses placeholder in forms, IE doesnt sopport it. So consider using something like IE placeholder polyfill.
    5. press F12 for developer tool.
    6. IE has a different box model.
    7. Here is an article that discusses about how IE handles various CSS properties.
    8. Convince your client not to use IE.(kidding..)

    I know this list will keep on and on. May be ask another question when you fall in specific problem. Good Luck.

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