Conditional comment for meta tag doesnt work

Question

My site doesn't work well in IE9 but works ok in IE8 and IE10 so I decided to make it render in IE8 if the version is IE9 and if the version is higher than IE9, edge is ok for me.

<!--[if IE 9]>
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 9]>
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<![endif]-->

doesn't work, it always renders with edge. What might be the problem?

Answer 1

Try adding a space after the opening comments as per this question: Previous question

<!--[if IE 9]> vs. <!-- [if IE 9]>

Also note that IE10 doesn't support conditional comments Microsoft support statement