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16 answers
233k views

How to detect IE11?

When I want to detect IE I use this code: function getInternetExplorerVersion() { var rv = -1; if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer') { var ua = navigator.userAgent; ...
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198 votes
13 answers
124k views

Text in a flex container doesn't wrap in IE11

Consider the following snippet: .parent { display: flex; flex-direction: column; width: 400px; border: 1px solid red; align-items: center; } .child { border: 1px solid blue; }...
Misha Moroshko's user avatar
151 votes
12 answers
200k views

Internet Explorer 11 detection

I know IE 11 has different user agent string than all other IE Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0) like Gecko I have tried to detect IE 11 with answer specified for this question' ...
Miqdad Ali's user avatar
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149 votes
3 answers
1.1m views

How to downgrade from Internet Explorer 11 to Internet Explorer 10?

As a developer, I found the new Internet Explorer version to be a complete nightmare. I turned the windows feature off, but I wasn't able to install Internet Explorer 10. It says that ...
Yaniv's user avatar
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123 votes
10 answers
132k views

Flexbox Not Centering Vertically in IE

I have a simple web page with some Lipsum content that is centered on the page. The page works fine in Chrome and Firefox. If I reduce the size of the window, the content fills the window until it can'...
Dragonseer's user avatar
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110 votes
8 answers
42k views

Why doesn't Internet Explorer 11 honour conditional comments even when emulating Internet Explorer 8 document mode?

I'm using the new Internet Explorer 11 developer tools to switch the document mode to "8", but conditional comments are still ignored, that is, they are not properly parsed and behave like ...
thasmo's user avatar
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103 votes
10 answers
164k views

Internet Explorer 11 disable "display intranet sites in compatibility view" via meta tag not working

I have been working on an intranet website for over 6 months were I have been using the below html5 doctype and edge compatibility meta tag to force Internet Explorer to not emulate an older browser ...
Pricey's user avatar
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102 votes
5 answers
81k views

What happened to "Always refresh from server" in IE11 developer tools?

Do the F12 developer tools in Internet Explorer 11 also have the "Always refresh from server" feature of the developer tools in IE 8-10? I see the "Clear browser cache... (Ctrl + R)" button on the ...
Daniel Trebbien's user avatar
100 votes
18 answers
109k views

Detecting IE version using CSS Capability/Feature Detection

IE10+ no longer supports browser detection tags to identify a browser. For detecting IE10 I am using JavaScript and a capability-testing technique to detect certain ms prefixed styles are defined such ...
dano's user avatar
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98 votes
5 answers
131k views

IE11 Document mode defaults to IE7. How to reset?

My Internet Explorer 11 on my Windows 8.1 Surface tablet defaults to document mode 7, causing a lot of websites to render wrongly. When I open the Developer tools, it states that it defaults to ...
jim's user avatar
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85 votes
2 answers
172k views

How to support promises in Internet Explorer 11?

I have a simple code that runs perfectly on every browser except for the Internet Explorer 11. How can I make it work on all browsers? Codepen 'use strict'; let promise = new Promise((resolve, reject)...
Billy Logan's user avatar
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77 votes
1 answer
127k views

Support for ES6 in Internet Explorer 11

According to this page http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/, ES6 features are not implemented in IE 11. Does IE 11 have a plan for implementing them one day or can I forget about it? Is there a ...
ling's user avatar
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66 votes
8 answers
204k views

How to set IE11 Document mode to edge as default?

I have Internet Explorer installed on my computer but needed to test compatibility mode of IE 7. After changing the document mode to IE 7, it set it as default and now I can't change it. The default ...
Pomster's user avatar
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60 votes
7 answers
86k views

How can I target only Internet Explorer 11 with JavaScript?

What's the least error-prone way to target just IE11 with JavaScript? Note: This should really only be done for analytics or informing the user what browser they're using. For everything else, there'...
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53 votes
1 answer
149k views

Where's the IE7/8/9/10-emulator in IE11 dev tools? [duplicate]

IE11 has just been released (as a developer preview) and i cannot find the IE7/8/9/10-emulator in IE11 dev tools. Does anyone know where to find them now ?
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