How to Define HTML5 DOCTYPE for IE

Is Internet Explorer not recognizing your <footer> tag?

I ran into the same issue.


To ensure browser recognition of the most common HTML5 tags, you need to declare to the HTML5 DOCTYPE in you code. To do so add the below DOCTYPE just before your <html> tag.

<!DOCTYPE html>

A simple adjustment that may keep you from banging your head in Internet Explorer 9.

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