Question

In IE9 Browser, a page is not displayed properly. Using developer toolbar I have found the following screenshot in which it displays

Browser Mode:IE9 Compat View
Document Mode : IE7 standards

If I force the browser to

Browser Mode : IE9 
DOucment Mode : IE9 Standard 

Then it display properly.

How can I show the page properly without forcing the browser to IE9 mode.

Answer 1

Ah… Internet Explorer didn’t support HTML5 until IE9. Add this to the header:

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="//html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

Also, add an HTML5 reset style sheet like this one:
http://html5doctor.com/html-5-reset-stylesheet/