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How to force an IE8 browser to work in IE7 mode

When a published web page tested for major browsers looks fine in IE7 but has some bugs in IE8 there a quick solution to solve the problem.

IE8 has an option to run in IE7 compatible mode which can be trigered through the following meta tag.

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

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