AFP to be opened in IE8 Standards (Document Mode)

Hi,

We are customizing a scratch Ajax Framework Page(AFP). The target browser is IE8. By default when we load the portal in the AFP, it opens in Quirks mode (Document Mode). We want the page to load in IE8 Standards Dosument mode by default.

We tried using the meta tag in html like,

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8" />

<META content="IE=edge" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible">

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=Edge"/>

But it doesn't change the rendering from Quirks mode.

Please let me know if there is a possibility of setting the Document mode to 'IE8 Standards' through javascript.