Since April, Microsoft has stopped technical support for the XP operating system, prompting many users to upgrade XP to Win7 and even Win8, and the system-bound browsers are upgraded from IE6 to IE8, IE9 and even IE11. We know that since IE8 began, Microsoft has made great improvements to its browsers, reducing some of Microsoft's own features and making browsers more compliant with international standards for global business to improve compatibility with other browsers.
The cost of doing so is to create a poor compatibility of IE browser itself. Many web sites developed based on IE6 browsers or lower versions are likely to produce web page rendering anomalies in IE8 and above browsers. For example, if the page contains marquee caption tags, filter filters and other source code, in the IE6 display is normal, in IE8 or IE11 will be out of shape.
In order to solve such problems, Microsoft has added the "Compatibility View" setting to browsers from IE8 and above, and has made the following note: "Compatibility View: Sites designed specifically for older browsers are generally more aesthetically pleasing, and such issues as menu, image or text location are not correct." ”
The IE8 browser tests whether the currently browsed Web site is based on an older version of the browser, and if so, the Compatibility View button appears on the right side of the address bar, shaped like a torn piece of paper. When you click this button, the button changes color, and the browser switches from the IE8 normal display mode to Compatibility View mode. The "compatible" button is positioned as the right image, and the button in the picture is discolored.
The above method only temporarily resolves some compatibility issues, if you want to browse the site in the future can be normal display, then you need to do in the Tools menu, "Compatibility View settings."
Click the "Tools" dialog box (for example, right) in the menu bar, and there are two items related to compatibility (the figure is marked with a light red).
Compatibility View (V) corresponds to the "compatible" button on the right side of the address bar. Click on this line of text, the left side of the text will be a tick, currently browsing the site to switch to Compatibility view mode. If this line of text is light-colored, the site is already designed based on the IE8 browser, and you do not need to use Compatibility view mode.
"Compatibility View settings (B)". Clicking on this line of text will come out a dialog box (such as the bottom right), which is "can add and remove sites to be displayed in Compatibility View." The right picture is to click on the "tool" when browsing this website, therefore in "Add this website (D)" appear the domain name of the website: [Iefans.net]. Just click "Add (A)" On the right, and the site's domain name will enter the text box "added to the Compatibility View site (W)". After adding, browsing this website will automatically enter the Compatibility view mode.
Setting the compatibility view with both methods is temporary, and the compatibility button still appears to the right of the page's address bar, and you can switch to the non-compatibility view mode again. To set the compatibility view once and for all, you can select the third to display all sites in Compatibility View (E) in the following three settings options in the Compatibility View Settings dialog box. (the default is first and 22 check boxes.) This allows you to open the Web page in Compatibility View mode when you access all Web sites. And when you open a Web page, the "compatible" button on the right side of the address bar no longer exists. That is to say, to revert to the normal display mode of IE8, you must cancel the "all sites" check in the Compatibility View settings.
Not all problems that do not display Web pages properly are caused by browser incompatibility. such as the network link is not smooth, the page download traffic is too large or web page made code error, etc. will affect the normal display of the Web page. Because switching to Compatibility view mode is easy, just click on the Compatibility View button. So when you encounter the page is not normal, you may wish to switch to Compatibility view mode to see if the display can be normal.