---
title: 'Did #IE9 break your #GWT site? Here is the fix!'
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/did-ie9-break-your-gwt-site-here-is-the-fix'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/did-ie9-break-your-gwt-site-here-is-the-fix.md'
date: '2011-03-15'
description: "<\_mеtа\_http-еqսiv=\"X-UA-Compаtiblе\"\_contеnt=\"IE=8\" \_> Google Web Toolkit support for Internet Explorer 9 is still in beta. So, you may be experiencing problems with your GWT apps (I know that I was). The answer is to put the tag listed above into the head of your landing page. This forces Tri…"
taxonomy:
  category:
    - Journal
  tag:
    - google
    - gwt
---

# Did #IE9 break your #GWT site? Here is the fix!

## [Did #IE9 break your #GWT site? Here is the fix!](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/did-ie9-break-your-gwt-site-here-is-the-fix)

    15th Mar 2011   [google](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:google#body-wrapper) [gwt](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:gwt#body-wrapper)  

 ```
< mеtа http-еqսiv="X-UA-Compаtiblе" contеnt="IE=8"  >
```

[Google Web Toolkit](https://code.google.com/webtoolkit/) support for [Internet Explorer 9](https://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/downloads/ie-9/worldwide-languages) is still in beta. So, you may be experiencing problems with your GWT apps (I know that I was). The answer is to put the tag listed above into the head of your landing page. This forces Trident ([the Internet Explorer rendering engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(layout_engine))) to process the page as v8 instead of v9.

I was really disappointed to have to do this to all of you using the new IE9. [It finally has decent CSS3 support](https://www.css3.info/microsoft-announces-css3-support-for-internet-explorer-9-ie9/). So, you would have been able to see all of the rounded corners and drop shadows in the site design. But, I think it is more important for the site to function than it is to look pretty.

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