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asp:menu fix for IE8 problem available

This is a popular problem with recently released browser IE8. Simple googling will give so many results consisting workarounds for this problem. The best way to set the things in IE8 is place the meta tag in all the master pages head section, for IE7 compatibility. This is legal and you can find this suggestion in many forums of ASP.Net. The magic meta tag is
meta equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" (with in tags < />)

Another workaround for this is to set the z-index of the menu control to a higher value like 100.

Now, there is a solution for this behavior. Interestingly, this mis-functionality is due to a bug in asp.net framework, which is fixed now. Microsoft has release a patch to fix this issue and the patch is available for download at following address.

Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB962351/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2294

Windows Vista, Server 2008:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967535/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2328

You can fine more details about this issue and fixes here.


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