httpequivXUACompatible
httpequivXUACompatible is a term used to refer to the HTML http-equiv directive X-UA-Compatible, a mechanism that was used to influence how Internet Explorer renders a document. The directive can be supplied in two ways: as a meta tag in the HTML head or as an HTTP header sent by the server.
The most common HTML form is a meta tag such as <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">, which instructs
In HTML, the meta tag should appear inside the head element. It is typically placed as the
Support and relevance: X-UA-Compatible is a non-standard directive that originated to address rendering differences in older
See also: Quirks mode, Standards mode, Doctype, Compatibility view.