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Asked: 2026-06-04T16:30:48+00:00

In IE9, my webpage is displaying as Browser Mode: IE9 Compat View and Document

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In IE9, my webpage is displaying as Browser Mode: IE9 Compat View and Document Mode: IE standards, which is breaking all my canvases.

I have made sure to have <!DOCTYPE html> as the very first line.

How can I force “normal” IE9 mode on IE9?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is the “edge” mode. 

    <html>
   <head>
      <title>My Web Page</title>
      <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
   </head>
   <body>
      <p>Content goes here.</p>
   </body>
</html>

    From the linked MSDN page:

    Edge mode tells Windows Internet Explorer to display content in the
    highest mode available, which actually breaks the “lock-in” paradigm.
    With Internet Explorer 8, this is equivalent to IE8 mode. If a
    (hypothetical) future release of Internet Explorer supported a higher
    compatibility mode, pages set to Edge mode would appear in the highest
    mode supported by that version; however, those same pages would still
    appear in IE8 mode when viewed with Internet Explorer 8.

    However, “edge” mode is not encouraged in production use:

    It is recommended that Web developers restrict their use of Edge mode to test pages and other non-production uses because of the possible unexpected results of rendering page content in future versions of Windows Internet Explorer.

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