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Internet Explorer 8 supports different document compatibility to ensure that your web pages have a consistent appearance in future versions.

If you are having trouble on a site in different IE, you can use specific rendering mode to display your web pages by using simple META tag. Below is the META tag to use IE7 rending in IE8:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

Details of defining rendering engine in IE