I’ve messed things up in IE…..

[Roldahayes]

Hi,

Please have a look this link
http://www.vantidy.co.uk/van_racking.php

I’ve got major problems in IE8 and below…. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Senff]

First of all, I’m glad there’s finally someone who says “I messeed up” and doesn’t blame IE for this. Doesn’t happen often :)

Anyway. Reason why it looks like that is because you use HTML5 tags (such as HEADER and SECTION) that IE8 doesn’t understand. Including the [Modernizr script](http://modernizr.com/docs/#installing “Modernizr script”) in your HEAD will solve a lot of stuff I’m sure.

[jkinney768]

You’re using HTML5 elements and not an HTML5 doctype. I’d suggest changing your doctype to HTML5 and then you’ll need to add in something like [HTML5 Shiv](https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/ “https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/”) for the older IE browsers to pick up on the HTML5 stuff. IE8 and below doesn’t support HTML5 elements like sections, nav, footer, etc. without something like Shiv.

[Roldahayes]

Yep – That seems to be the issue – Thanks guys for the advise.

All working now :)

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