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My website's display alignment is totally out in IE-9. Therefore I apply this statement to fix the problem:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

Now using Windows-8 with IE-10, the website's display alignment again is out. With the current statement

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

It does not help at all. Is there other alternative?

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Can you add link to your site? This can speed things up. – Petr Abdulin Oct 24 '12 at 10:14
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Would it not be easier to fix the alignment problem within IE considering the problem exists in both IE9 and IE10 the same solution likely would work. – Ramhound Oct 24 '12 at 10:51
+1 Fix the underlying issue instead of looking for workarounds. – Karan Oct 24 '12 at 21:51
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You should post this in StackOverFlow :) – SnippetSpace Oct 25 '12 at 14:51

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There is a legacy quirks mode, different to the normal quirks mode which you could try:

The legacy quirks mode is called "IE5 Quirks mode" and behaves as quirks mode in IE9. You can turn it on with X-UA-Compatible: IE=5 HTTP header or <meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible content="IE=5"> tag. In this mode, IE renders the page as old IE5.

The above from this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11865561/593627

So, try replacing <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> with <meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible content="IE=5">.

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Hello, replaced but it is getting worst. Is there other alternative? – Alvin Lim Oct 24 '12 at 12:03
I'm not sure to be honest, sorry. – George Duckett Oct 24 '12 at 12:05
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I'm not an expert in web standards and browser rendering, but I've stumbled across this post which suggests that IE 10 no longer reacts to X-UA-Compatible headers.

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hello: this is the example html: is.com.sg/spms/services.html After applying the statement, the alignment is still out for IE10. But it is working perfectly in Chrome & firefox <!--[if ie]><meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible content="IE=Edge" /><![endif]--> – Alvin Lim Dec 18 '12 at 3:53

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