title: How do I force Internet Explorer to render in Standards Mode and NOT in Quirks?
body: <p>I am coding a Frontend which works well in IE7 Standards Mode and IE8 Standards Mode.</p>
  
  <p>When I start up Internet Explorer and load the page both IE7 and IE8 go to Quirks Mode directly. How can I force both IE7 and IE8 to always load the page in Standards Mode?</p>
  
  <p>I have no special meta tags added so far.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for helping me out</p>
  
  <p>Edit: My doctype and head looks as follows at the moment:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; 
  &lt;html lang="de"&gt; 
  &lt;head&gt; 
      &lt;title&gt;...&lt;/title&gt; 
      &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /&gt;
      &lt;meta charset="utf-8" /&gt;
      &lt;script src="js/html5.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; 
  
      (...)
  &lt;/head&gt;
  </code></pre>