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
Just as a heads up. I had the same problem and none of the above fixed it for me. Eventually I found out that respond.js doesn't parse CSS referenced via @import. I had the whole bootstrap.min.css
imported via @import
into my main.css
.
So make sure you don't have any CSS that contains your media queries referenced via @import.
I faced the same problem, tried the first answer but something was missing.
If you guys are using Webpack, your css will be loaded as a style tag which is not supported by respond.js, it needs a file, so make sure bootstrap is loaded as a css file
Personally I used extract-text-webpack-plugin
const webpack = require("webpack")
const ExtractTextPlugin = require("extract-text-webpack-plugin")
const path = require("path")
module.exports = {
context: __dirname+"/src",
entry: "./index.js",
output: {
filename: "./dist/bundle.js",
path: __dirname
},
plugins: [
...,
new ExtractTextPlugin("./dist/bootstrap.css", {
allChunks: true
})
],
module: {
loaders: [
...,
// your css loader excluding bootstrap
{
test: /\.css$/,
loader: "style!css",
exclude: [
path.resolve(__dirname, "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css")
]
},
{
// loads bootstrap as a file, change path accordingly if needs be, path needs to be absolute
include: [
path.resolve(__dirname, "node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css")
],
loader: ExtractTextPlugin.extract("style-loader", "css-loader?minimize")
}
]
}
}
Hope it will help you
After verifying:
Still col-lg, col-md, and col-sm were not working. Finally I moved the references to bootstrap to be before the references to html5shiv.js and respond.js and it all worked.
Here is a snippet:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>Bootstrap Test for IE8</title>
<!-- Moved these two lines up -->
<link href="includes/css/bootstrap.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="includes/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="includes/js/html5shiv.js"></script>
<script src="includes/js/respond.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-4" style="background-color:red;">col-md-4</div>
<div class="col-md-8" style="background-color:green;">col-md-8</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Just in case. Make sure you load the IE specific js files after you load your css files.
put respond.js
at bottom of page but before closing body
tag and here is link of respond.js
and run this code in your localhost.
https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond
I've read every comment here, tried everything.. but couldn't get it to work with Windows 7 - Internet Explorer 11 (with document mode: IE8).
Then it came to mind that running a document mode (IE8) isn't the same as the real IE8, so I installed Windows Virtual PC (Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8) and tadaaaa... it works like a charm!
I've put this piece of code JUST at the bottom of the page to make it work:
<!-- HTML5 Shim and Respond.js IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
<!-- WARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// -->
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.0/html5shiv.js"></script>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/respond.js/1.3.0/respond.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</body>
</html>