When you develop your ASP application, you might face rendering issues with some web browsers. In this article I will give you a step-by-step on to set a client target in your ASP application to solve rendering issues.

Getting Started

1. Open your ASP project.

2. In the file explorer, open the web.config file of your project:

3. Find the <system.web> element. There we are going to declare the ClientTarget alias to set the user agent to be used. Start by opening the <clienttarget> elements:

4. Now let’s add the alias. In this case I have issues with the latest version of Internet Explorer and also with “Edge”. I will set my app to load in “Compatibility Mode” by entering the alias and the user agent:

<add alias="ie11" userAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)"/>

5. Save your changes. And that’s it! User Agent has been set!

This concludes Set Client Target in Web.config

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