Websites don’t always display the way you expect. Images may not load, menus can shift, and text might run together. Internet Explorer may not fully support the site’s layout. In many cases, you can fix this by adding the site to your Compatibility View list.
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The BizTalk BAM Portal often fails to render correctly in Internet Explorer 11 due to legacy document mode requirements. Menus might disappear or layouts may break. This guide explains how to restore full functionality by enabling “Compatibility View” for the BAM Portal URL, ensuring that legacy web standards are supported on modern workstations.
What is IE Compatibility View
Compatibility View first appeared in Internet Explorer 8. It helped older sites built for Internet Explorer 7 keep working while developers updated them for modern web standards. Unfortunately, the BAM Portal never received those updates, so it still runs into compatibility issues today.
Internet Explorer 11 Issues
As always, one of the downsides of dealing with new versions of products like IE and so on… is figuring out where some features/options have moved in this new release. And this is exactly one of these cases…
“Starting with IE11, document modes are considered deprecated and should no longer be used. Webpages that require legacy document modes to display properly should be rewritten to use features defined by modern standards.” – Source: Specifying legacy document modes.
For this reason, in Internet Explorer 11, the compatibility view button is removed from the address bar. Microsoft felt that the button had outlived its purpose because it had been many years since Microsoft introduced X-UA-Compatible tags. Web developers were supposed to add these X-UA-Compatible meta tags to their website’s HTML header to indicate web page compatibility and not leave it to the user to depend on the button to correctly render the page.
However, and fortunately for us BizTalkers, the compatibility view feature still remains in the browser.
How to enable Compatibility View
You can turn it on or off by:
- Click on the Settings icon in the top right corner of IE11 and select the Compatibility View Settings item in the drop-down menu
- In the Compatibility View Settings box, add the problematic website URL – aka BAM Portal – and then click Add.
- Compatibility View is turned on for this single website, for this specific computer.
- Enable both checkboxes, Display intranet sites in Compatibility View, and Use Microsoft compatibility lists, and then click Close.
Once you turn on Compatibility View, Internet Explorer will automatically show the BAM Portal in Compatibility View each time you visit, fixing all the previous behavior problems.
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