title: Turn off IE 8 Compatibility Mode for site
body: <p>My company uses IE8 as the default browser and by default compatibility mode is set for all intranet sites.  I'm building an intranet site that works when compatibility mode is turned off.  I'm using reset.css and several opensource javascript programs, e.g. datatables. </p>
  
  <p>What I'd like to do is force compatibility mode off for my site.  Is there any programmatic way to do it?  I have tried setting the meta values </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=IE8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" /&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to no avail.</p>
  
  <p>What's the most frustrating part is that Chrome and Firefox work great as is.</p>