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My understanding was that bootstrap 3.xx supported IE8. When you to the bootstrap's navbar example page and switch to IE's document mode to version 8. The navigation bar displays as if it's displaying in a mobile device or small screen at all times. Here is an image NavBar collapsing on IE8

I had this problem with a page I started developing and found people suggesting making sure to use Doctype which i was or using the non-minified version of bootstrap css which i tried without changes, then i noticed the sample page was doing the same, so the main question really is is IE 8 just not supported anymore?

irco
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  • Are you including respond.js from your local files or from a CDN? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17947182/ie8-issue-with-twitter-bootstrap-3 – Billy Moat Apr 22 '14 at 15:04
  • In my code I have to use local files, the work is for an intranet website, I tested almost every suggestion in that question. I have the [if lt IE 9] block pointing to local copies of html5shiv and respond – irco Apr 22 '14 at 15:20
  • Couple of extra tips here: http://www.joostrap.com/blog/bootstrap-3-supporting-internet-explorer-8-and-9 – Billy Moat Apr 22 '14 at 15:44
  • only thing I hadnt done there was the extra bits for the style, which didn't do anything, thanks for the suggestions though – irco Apr 22 '14 at 17:20
  • Document Mode IE8 on an newer version of IE is *known* to behave somewhat differently than *actual* IE8. Try testing with actual IE8. – cvrebert Apr 24 '14 at 02:00
  • Bootstrap v3 still officially supports IE8. – cvrebert Apr 24 '14 at 02:01

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Looks like you're using IE11?

Even in IE8 mode, IE11 doesn't respect conditional comments. In particular, this means that it ignores the conditional comment containing the HTML5 element and CSS media query polyfills that Bootstrap advises:

<!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
  <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.0/html5shiv.js"></script>
  <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/respond.js/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
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