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    My site looks different in IE8 and IE9 but was ok in IE7?

    With the introduction of Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9, some sites can look different to the way that they did in IE7.

    You can request that your customers run Internet Explorer in 'Compatibility Mode' (button immediately to the left of the address bar) which will then display the site properly, or alternatively you could try adding the following line into your <head>...</head> tag to force the browser to display in compatibility mode: -

    HTML Code:
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
    Please go to 'Settings | Site Options | Layout' and under the 'Site' group and make a note of all of the outer layouts used within this group, then close the 'Site Options' box.

    Then go to 'Design | Library | Layouts | Web Page Outer Layout' and open each 'outer layout' that you have made a note of above in turn, and scroll down to approximately line 6 where you should see: -

    HTML Code:
    <title>PageTitle</title>
    Enter the compatibility code just above so that it looks like this: -

    HTML Code:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    
    <html>
    <head>
      
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
    <title>PageTitle</title>
    and click 'OK' (remember to be effective you must do this for all of the outer layouts used by the site).

    Once you upload the site it should display correctly in IE8 and IE9.
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