ASP.NET pop-up menus do not work in Internet Explorer 8.0

Recently I came across one of those Microsoft glitches that we jokingly categorize as "A feature not a bug." ASP.NET pop-up menus that are commonly used on most websites for the main navigation bar, does not work. When you hover over the menu, you get a white box instead of the expected sub-menu options.

There are two ways of resolving this:

1. Place a meta tag in the header of your web browser to emulate IE7: <meta equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/>
2. Install a patch on the webserver. This patch is available from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962351

Hope this information helps.