Does Internet Explorer 8 support HTML 5?

Question

Is there any HTML5 support in IE8? Is it on the IE8 roadmap?

Answer 1

You can use this to make IE8 understand/support basic HTML5 tags.

<!--[if lt IE 9 ]> 
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var html5Elem = ['header', 'nav', 'menu', 'section', 'article', 'aside', 'footer'];
        for (var i = 0; i < html5Elem.length; i++){
            document.createElement(html5Elem[i]);
        }
    </script>
<![endif]-->

Answer 2

Check out the caniuse guide for all HTML 5 features across all browsers and versions, including future versions.

Answer 3

Modernizr is also a great option for giving IE HTML5 rendering capabilities.

Answer 4

IE8's HTML5 support is limited, but Internet Explorer 9 has just been released and has strong support for the new emerging HTML5 technologies.

Answer 5

You can get HTML5 tags working in IE8 by including this JavaScript in the head.

<script type="text/javascript">
 document.createElement('header');
 document.createElement('nav');
 document.createElement('menu');
 document.createElement('section');
 document.createElement('article');
 document.createElement('aside');
 document.createElement('footer');
</script>

Answer 6

Also are supported HTML5 hashchange event and ononline, offline event