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

I had this same issue when transitioning from Bootstrap 2 to 3. I'd already got respond.js and html5shiv.js and set my meta to edge. I'd missed that from 2 to 3 the navbar element type had changed. In Bootstrap 2 it was nav. In Bootstrap 3 it's now header. So to fully resolve the problem I had to

Put this right after I'd loaded my css:

and then change

to

Oh and for good measure I also added

simply because that's what the Bootstrap site itself has.