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searls/quirks-mode-doctype-hack.js

Created June 9, 2011 20:23
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What to do when you can't edit the markup, but the markup doesn't have a doctype defined, and you don't want IE7/8 to enable quirks mode.
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quirks-mode-doctype-hack.js
if($.browser.msie && document.compatMode === 'BackCompat') {
document.write('<!DOCTYPE html>'+document.documentElement.outerHTML);
history.go(0);
}
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