htmlviewer displays differently than the browser

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I have noticed that my web pages display differently in the htmlviewer than they do with Internet Explorer.
I’m using Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 10 installed.

For example, a div with a min-height style will display correctly in the IE10 browser, but the min-height will not be rendered on the same machine inside the htmlviewer control. I have not set the webkit property so it should be using the IE10 engine, right?

What could cause the difference?

Thanks,
Bernn
BErnn

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It’ll be whatever version of IE came with your OS by default.

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And it may be using IE in compatibility mode which makes IE behave like an older version (like IE 7 or maybe 8)

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Check this link:
http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2011/May/21/Web-Browser-Control-Specifying-the-IE-Version

And do not ask me, why Microsoft uses outdated old rendering engines (IE7!!) when IE10 is installed for ActiveX embedded versions.
It may be the same reason why I switched to Mac couple of years ago :slight_smile:

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I need to quickly switch between IE versions to test my web apps, so I brew a small app to change that with a simple PopupMenu.

I just tried the registers in the link above under Windows 10. It appears that no longer is the key YourApplication.exe, but now there are two keys with the same value :

reg.Value("devenv.exe") = 9999 reg.Value("Microsoft.VsHub.Server.HttpHost.exe") =9999

Note that as default, IE11 is set to render as IE 9.

Also, I noticed that Web apps do not recognize HTMLViewer unless the UserAgent property is set.

This does the trick

me.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"