Ie Conditional Statement Displaying Div Even Though The Condition Says It Shouldn't

I am having a peculiar problem and I am hoping someone has encountered this before and solved this or knows about this issue and has good knowledge as what is causing this. I am cr

Solution 1:

Since the site opens in IE9 Compat View, I suspect that you are hosting this locally and the page is loading in the Intranet Zone. This will affect the results compared to if you host on the internet. You might (temporarily) uncheck the "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" setting in IE's Compatibility View settings to see if this changes the result.