max-width:-webkit-fit-content ie 8 equivalent?

Question

Are there any hacks for max-width:-webkit-fit-content; for ie 8?

Trying to get a child div to not take up the whole width of the parent and this works well

Answer 1

The closest I can think of is floating your elements. Not exactly alike, but probably sufficiently alike;) You need to set extra margin though, but this should be no problem with a conditional stylesheet.

.textbox {
    background-color: yellow;
    float:left;
    clear:left;
}

Your modified fiddle