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How to set compatibility mode for IE(Internet Explorer) using HTML
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HTML <meta> tag is helps to set compactibility mode to page header information. http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" and content is  IE=7,IE=8 or IE=9, This is the way of setting compactibility mode in Internet Explorer.

Example:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />
Example
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
   <head>
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
   </head>
   <body>
        <div style="display:inline-block;background-color: yellow;">data</div>
   </body>
</html>
Note 
DOCTYPE tag should be declared to get document mode IE8 working.
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