Is this possible at all? I tried adding this to the page but it didn't change a thing.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8">
UPDATE- I'm trying to do this because our site has some IE9 specific CSS issues, which wouldn't appear in IE8.
Thanks
Edit: in case something happens to kill the msdn link, here is the content:
On the client side you can add and remove websites to be displayed in Compatibility View from Compatibility View Settings window of IE:
Tools-> Compatibility View Settings
Yes. Recent versions of IE (IE8 or above) let you adjust that. Here's how:
That should open the Developer Tools window. That window has two menu items that are of interest:
More at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/06/16/ie-s-compatibility-features-for-site-developers.aspx
The 1st element as in no hard returns. A hard return I guess = an empty node/element in the DOM which becomes the 1st element disabling the doc compatability meta tag.