IE10 renders in IE7 mode. How to force Standards mode?

Question

On microsoft\'s site they claim that simple doctype declaration is enough. But even a document as short as this falls back to IE7 mode:

Answer 1

It worked perfectly for me when i did the folowing:

On http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699338(v=vs.85).aspx

Used the exact example they provide in the first box(added the missing at the bottom), opened it in IE10 and standards was forced, i think you may need actual content in the html for it to force standards not sure though.

My suggestion would be to replace your empty code with actual content(something simple) and see what it does.