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Asked: 2026-05-21T12:49:56+00:00

[Original title: IE 9 text renders very poorly; is there a workaround? ) IE

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[Original title: IE 9 text renders very poorly; is there a workaround?)

IE 9 is rendering the text in my application very poorly. The problem is not in my monitor’s Clear Type settings, since IE 9 in compatibility mode, Firefox, and Chrome all render text nicely. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of how the text is rendered with IE 9, IE 9 in compatibility mode, and Chrome:

IE 9

IE 9 Compatibility Mode

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I tried applying this answer, but it doesn’t seem to apply to anything after IE 7. Does anybody know of any workarounds we can apply to our site to fix IE 9’s bad text rendering?

Edit:

I’ve boiled down the problem page to the bare essentials. As you can see, it doesn’t take much to reproduce. Be sure that IE has a browser mode if IE9 and document mode of IE9 standards:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <body style="background-color: rgb(30, 34, 59); color: rgb(255, 85, 0); font-size: 20px">
    Home
  </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    It seems setting opacity:.9999 on body renders the text in IE9 standards mode a lot more similar to how it does in Quirks mode.

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