deployed application appears different in IE8

I developed an application locally using the Visual Studio 2008 built-in web server and it is running nice and neat on every single browser.

When we deployed it on the IIS6 and open it on IE8, there are rendering issues. The fonts are bigger than the other browsers (which are still nice and neat) and some components just moved around. The generated HTML is the same as the others.

How can this be fix开发者_如何学JAVAed?

1. Which DOCType are you using - are you in "quirks mode" or "standards mode"?
2. Are you using a CSS reset?
3. Are you using the IE7 compatibility tag?

There are ways to fix what's "wrong" but without seeing your code, determining what's wrong is difficult.

Press F-12 in IE8 and see what browser mode you are in. If you're in "quirks mode" you're in trouble.

Thanks to Diodeus and thirtydot we figured out how to solve the problem.

The meta tag "X-UA-Compatible" allow you to control the way Internet Explorer interprets and displays your webpage. when i set , it overrides the ie7 rendering mode that IIS 6.0 puts IE 8.0 into.

Here is some useful information about that:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(v=vs.85).aspx