Hover effects not working with IE8

Question

I used CSS for a color change on hover for a table

#tabb tbody tr:hover td{
    color:#006;
    background:#d0e4f2;
}

This works fine in Ch

Answer 1

That should work fine in IE8.

A stab in the dark:

Make sure you have a doctype as the very first line of your HTML that triggers Standards Mode, such as:

In Quirks Mode, IE emulates version 5.5, which does not support :hover on elements other than a.