Force IE compatibility mode off using tags

Question

I am doing work for a client who forces compatibility mode on all intranet sites. I was wondering if there is a tag I can put into my HTML that forces compatibility mode off

Answer 1

Just a few more notes on this topic based on my recent experiences. The university I work for issues laptops with IE 8 set to compatibility mode for all Intranet Sites. I tried adding the meta tag to disable this mode for pages being served up by my site but IE consistently ignored this tag. As Lance mentioned in his post, adding a response header fixed this issue. This is how I set the header based on the HTML5 boilerplate method:

  Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=edge,chrome=1"
  # mod_headers can't match by content-type, but we don't want to send this header on *everything*...
  
    Header unset X-UA-Compatible
  

In order for this header to actually be sent, you have to make sure you have mod_headers turned on in Apache. If you want to make sure you have this mod turned on, put this in a page that can run php: