Force Internet Explorer compatibility view to be used for your web site

With Internet Explorer 8 and 9 you may have noticed some websites not working like they used to. It's been quite a while since the release of IE 8 so most of the major sites have probably caught up to this problem, but the easy fix is to setup the site to force IE8 and IE9 to use the compatibility view function with your site. You can do this through the use of a custom header, which is easy to setup in IIS. You can do it on other types of web servers too. The custom HTTP header to add is X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7. This is supposed to only be acknowledged by IE, thus leaving any other browser functioning as it normally would. For instructions on how to do this in IIS 6 or IIS 7 or in a Web.config file, check out the Microsoft article here. For an Apache web server you can modify the httpd.conf file or include it in specific directories or pages. Microsoft outlines this process as well in a separate article that you can find here.