Emulating IE7 in IE8 – By adding a Meta tag within the head tag on all the pages

Introduction

In my last blog: Emulating IE7 in IE8 – By adding a Http Header in IIS I had explained how one could emulate IE7 in IE8 through IIS by adding an Http Header. Now in this article I'm going to exhibit how one can achieve the same by adding a Meta tag within the head tag on each page of the web application.  

Method

Simpley add a Meta tag (<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />) within the head tag on all the pages of web application as -
 

The X-UA-compatible header is not case sensitive; however, it must appear in the web page's header before all other elements, except for the title element and other Meta elements.

Conclusion

So this is the other method to achieve the same. Please let me know if you've any query.