Reply To: UL menu won't display in IE8. CSS or DOCTYPE issue?

[Merri]

My eyes paid attention to the 1px difference between #newMenu and the menu items.

http://codepen.io/Merri/pen/rIKBz

So I fixed that, removed “noise styles” that I considered unnecessary and also commented what everything does. Changed font-sizes to both px and rems to introduce those as a plausible solution to the font-size: 0; issue.

Now the links determine the height of #newMenu ul and thus the height of the #newMenu as well. This makes it easier to restyle.