If you’re WordPress theme isn’t displaying the way it should in Internet Explorer 8 there may be a simple fix which isto put this line of code:

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

in your header.  “Hat tip goes to Ed Bott for writing about this in his post “Which sites will make the IE8 Compatiblity Hall of Shame”.

Yeah I know, if the world would just move to Firefox or any other working browser without the Microsoft ego that assumes the entire Internet world should bend to its will we wouldn’t have this problem.  However, as much as you may hate IE and while I may only use it for checking how Websites I am working on it render in it, the fact that 75% of your visitors are using it make coding for it a necessary evil.

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