Trouble setting IE8 browser mode to IE7

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Published on 2010-05-21T06:09:05Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 6:10 UTC
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Inspite of putting the following meta tag I am not getting the expected result:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" >

I open the developer tool window. In the same bar where the menu appears there is an item called Browser Mode: it still shows IE 8 by default. Even doing document.documentMode in the console window shows "8". Am I doing anything wrong?

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