IE8 issue with Twitter Bootstrap 3

Question

I am creating a site using the new Twitter Bootstrap. The site looks fine and works in all required browsers except IE8.

In IE8 it seems to be displaying elements o

Answer 1

You got your CSS from CDN (bootstrapcdn.com) respond.js only works for local files. So try your website on IE8 with a local copy of bootstrap.css. Or read: CDN/X-Domain Setup

Note See also: https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond/pull/206

Update:

Please read: http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#support

In addition, Internet Explorer 8 requires the use of respond.js to enable media query support.

See also: https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond

For this reason the basic template contains these lines in the head section: