Quirks Mode & IE8 Problem

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I have a very strange issue regarding only IE8 + Windows Vista, the error is very strange, I'll use some example names.

I have 2 pages, page1.html and page2.html, when opening both typing the address directly, there is no quirks mode.

When page2.html is opened via a _blank link (new window), it is displayed in Quirks Mode, this ONLY happens when the page is opened the way mentioned above.

Things I've tried

  • Opening page2.html from different websites.
  • Using <!DOCTYPE html> on page1.html and page2.html.

Things to note:

  • The doctype on the pages is <!DOCTYPE html>
  • There is NO whitespace / XML declaration above the DOCTYPE
  • If the link is opened in a new tab or same tab, there is no problem.

This just baffles me, it works fine from IE8 on Windows7, and also works fine with IE6 on Windows XP.

Update: This doesn't happen on the test server, only on the production server, so is there anything server side that could affect this?

Also tried <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" > which I thought would force it to render as IE-8, but alas, it doesn't work.

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are you sure what you're seeing is quirksmode, and not IE7-compatibility mode? (check what is shown in the dev tools window; press F12) - Spudley
in that case, is your HTML valid? (have you checked with the W3C Validator?) Bad HTML code can cause IE to jump into quirks mode. Another possible thing that can trigger it is comments near your DOCTYPE. - Spudley
There are a few errors, mostly non-issue stuff though - Daniel
e.g. Unescaped characters, not recognising facebook opengraph stuff - Daniel
the only other thing I can think of is browser settings. Possible that the specific browser has a setting which tells it to jump into quirksmode for a given site or zone (ie typically the local intranet zone). This would normally apply to compatibility mode rather than quirks mode, but worth checking, as I can't think of anything else. - Spudley

2 Answers

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Click Tools (right click the top of the browser window if you don't have a menu bar to enable it) -> Compatibility View Settings -> check if your intranet zone is set to display in compatibility view.

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This was a rather straight forward problem, it was nothing to do with the page having bad code, it was an IE addon that caused it, thanks for help.