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Asked: 2026-05-22T01:35:53+00:00

On our website we currently implemented logic to block IE 6 users. But IE

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On our website we currently implemented logic to block IE 6 users. But IE 7 is equally crappy and it requires a lot of work to make the stylesheets work so we are deciding if we block IE 7 will this affect IE 8 users who run compatibility mode (which mimics IE 7) or will it only block people who have Ie 7 installed? I would like to block only people who use IE 7 but allow people who use IE 8 in compability mode but display a warning to them that this site requires pure IE 8. Or to make life easier i could block IE 8 in compability mode? And if so how to do this compability mode check in php?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can prevent IE to not render in compatibility mode by adding the following to your .htaccess file:

    Header set X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge

    This will tell IE to always render the page to the latest version of IE (edge)

    This is discussed further here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(v=vs.85).aspx

    alternatively you can add the following in the header of the pages you wish not to be used in compatibility mode :

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