Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Where is the Compatibility View Button in IE 11?

In earlier versions of IE (Internet Explorer), if you came across a web page that was misbehaving or had missing/misplaced buttons, links, pictures etc, you could easily hit the Compatibility View button at the top of the screen in the address bar. 

This button was made to correct issues that website developers were not able to anticipate for when new versions of the browser were created.

Now in IE 11, they took this button away.  So, how can you still use this buttons feature to correct the incompatibility issues? 

First COPY the WEB ADDRESS of the page you are experiencing the problems on.

Then, click on TOOLS at the top of your screen and select COMPATIBILITY VIEW SETTINGS.


PASTE the address into the field "Add this website" at the top of the window that opened and click ADD.


Close out of IE completely to ensure the change took place.  Open IE again and go back to the same page you were having the problems with.   Problems should now be resolved.

Not sure why IE took that convenient button out from the top of the page but at least there is still a way to accomplish the same thing, with unfortunately a few extra steps added though.

ENJOY!

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