IE 8 broke my ASP.Net Menu
Last night I upgraded to Internet Explorer 8, thinking that I wanted to be on the “latest and greatest” version of IE. I should have known better.
About 10 minutes before a customer demo of a project I have been working on for a while now, I realize that it has broken my ASP.net AJAX Controls menu. I didn’t want to but I had to reschedule the meeting. After a little bit of tinkering and searching, I found a solution to the problem. Insert a meta tag to force the browser to emulate IE7. To do so, use the following in our code:
1: <head>
2: <!-- Use IE7 mode -->
3: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
4: <title>My Web Page</title>
5: </head>
I haven’t found any good explanation of why this happens other that the usual “standards based “ browser stuff.
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