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  • March 17, 2016 at 7:19 am #239410
    orayner2
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    Hi all,

    I’m new here and this is my first post – I hope I can provide as much info as possible :)

    Problem:
    – IE is rendering my content as text/plain as opposed to text/HTML

    Questions:
    – I see IE has an option to ‘format documents using my style sheet’ – could this fix the issue?
    – Or maybe a bookmarklet would be the fix?

    Background:
    – I can’t amend the source code that the server spits out – so my only option is to force IE to read it in a certain way
    – I have installed an extension in Chrome (modify content type) which has resolved the issue there – I wonder if I can replicate this in IE somehow
    – Ideally I would only like to force content type from a specific URL

    Appreciate any and all help you might provide. Really struggling with this one – and Chrome is not a suitable option for me unfortunately :(

    Thanks all,
    Oscar

    March 17, 2016 at 7:35 am #239411
    bearhead
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    Is the document you’re opening with IE8 a .txt file? If so, then I can only assume there isn’t any way to get IE8 to treat it like an html file. Maybe someone with a deeper knowledge of IE could help you with a work-around…

    If the document is an .html file (or something else that outputs html) then I really have no idea why IE8 wouldn’t be reading it as such…

    March 17, 2016 at 7:41 am #239413
    orayner2
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    Hi bearhead,

    Thanks for your response – appreciate you even looking at this :)

    It’s content via a URL – I think the code is poorly written – and maybe there should be a header on the HTML itself for IE to render it correctly?

    Example of the first part of source code:

    <

    div><style type=”text/css”>

    Thanks again,
    Oscar

    March 17, 2016 at 8:15 am #239415
    bearhead
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    Yeah it’s really hard to say without looking at the code, but I’m guessing the html is not valid which is causing it not to render as expected. Style sheets/tags need to be added to the &lt;head&gt; of the document. Styles in the &lt;body&gt; must be added directly to elements with the style="" attribute.

    Some modern browsers can deal with invalid html, but maybe IE8 doesn’t have those capabilities?

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