Symptoms
Smartforms hosted in an iFrame are not rendering correctly as IE Document Mode automatically changes to IE7.
Diagnoses
Smartforms hosted in an iFrame are not rendering correctly as IE Document Mode automatically changes to IE7.
Resolution
This Microsoft article explains how IE chooses between document mode: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff405803(v=vs.85).aspx
As per the article, “if the document is hosted in an iframe element, the document mode is determined by the document mode of the top-level webpage. Subdocuments cannot be rendered in IE9 mode unless the top-level document is also in IE9 mode.”
A meta tag can override this settings as per the articles below to force IE to read the site in standard mode:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh779632.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff955275(v=vs.85).aspx