Padding not working when using tag in IE

Question

I am using HTML5 < section > tag in my application, padding for < section > tag works fine in chrome,ff and safari but its not working in IE..

I tried adding displ

Answer 1

As others have mentioned, the

element is one of the new HTML5 elements that is not supported in IE versions lower than 9.

I'm not sure how accurate this article is, but they are able to pull of the effect you are after using XHTML5. However, there's a lot of caveats that have to be taken into account of very carefully to get it to work (such as not serving the XML declaration to IE as it will make IE go into quirks mode, but you need to serve it to other browsers, etc.)

However, the benefits of this approach are that you require no Javascript to get it to work, and therefore can serve to users with Javascript disabled.