How to fix: HTML5 video not working in IE9

Microsoft does not support IE9 anymore, and neither do we.

While IE9 does support HTML5 <video> tags, it fails to work until you force HTML5 mode.

Here are two ways to do that.

Option 1: Doctype

Make sure your HTML document uses HTML5. It should start like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>

If you can not set a doctype, you use the X-UA-Compatible meta tag in your HTML <head>.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge"/>

Arne Hartherz

Last edit

2018-03-15

Henning Koch

License

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Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2016-04-08 11:50)