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To disable the Compatibility View List at any time, use the Compatibility View Settings to disable the "Include updated website lists from Microsoft" setting. Additional settings allow you to further customize the Compatibility View Settings.

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Determining Whether Your Site Is in the Compatibility View List

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Code Block
http://ie9cvlist.ie.microsoft.com/ie9CompatViewList.xml

 

To determine whether your site is on the list, search the file for the domain of your website.  If you do not find the domain, your site is not on the list.

Note  If your webpages are displayed in Compatability View and your site does not appear on the Compatibility View List, you may be able to use the Console object of the F12 tools to determine the reason.  When Internet Explorer 9 displays a page in Compatability View, a message is written to the console. For more information, see How to use F12 Developer Tools to Debug your Webpages.

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The Compatibility View List is an XML file that contains entries similar to the following (fictional) entries. 

 

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<domain>adatum.com</domain>  
<domain docMode="EmulateIE7">fabrikam.com</domain>  
<domain docMode="EmulateIE8">fourthcoffee.com</domain>  
<domain featureSwitch="createElementWithMarkup:false">northwindtraders.com</domain>  
<domain docMode="EmulateIE8" versionVector="8" uaString="8">woodgrovebank.com</domain>
 

The domain element defines the domain name of a site in the Compatibility View List and the attributes of the element, if any, describe how the website is handled by Internet Explorer.  The following list describes the effects of the most common attributes:
  • If a domain element does not contain additional attributes, webpages on the affected site are displayed in IE7 mode if they contain standards-based doctype directives or IE5 (Quirks) mode otherwise.
  • The docMode attribute, when specified, corresponds to a document mode value specified by an X-UA-Compatible header.
  • The featureSwitch specifies a unique and specific change applied to a very specific set of circumstances.  The details of each circumstance vary according to the value of the featureSwitch attribute. For example, the createElementWithMarkup value indicates that the site relies on non-standard behavior of the createElement method.
  • The versionVector and uaString attributes control the way Internet Explorer identifies itself to the website; the attributes are generally necessary when a site attempts to serve specific content to Internet Explorer.
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Microsoft will review the provided information and remove your site from the Compatibility View List at the next scheduled update. The supplied information will be used only for the purposes described here and will not be shared with any third party.