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X-UA-Compatible not working when wrapped in conditional comment?


I have recently run into following meta tag in a conditional comment:

<!--[if IE]><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"><![endif]-->

Correct me if I'm wrong but after some tests I came to a conclusion that this comment seems to prevent IE from displaying document in a preffered edge mode.

Anybody knows why and is there any use of placing X-UA meta tag in a conditional comment in the first place?


Solution

  • Anybody knows why

    Conditional comments and X-UA-Compatibile are both preprocessors

    and is there any use of placing X-UA meta tag in a conditional comment in the first place?

    No