title: How to force IE11 Compatibility Document Mode to be 8?
body: <p>I am a developer on a web app that only works in IE11 if it is added to compatibility view(defaulting the document mode to 5). The problem is that there is a page within the web app that needs CSS :before which does not work correctly if the document mode is below 8. I've tried adding</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; 
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  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=8" &gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the page seems to be defaulting that page to document mode 7. I'm not too familiar with how IE works but is there any way around this?</p>