IE8 display inline-block not working

css internet-explorer-8

tdh87 · Feb 2, 2012 · Viewed 99.4k times · Source

Say I have the following code

<style type="text/css" media="all">
  span, ul, ul li {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: top;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;
  }   
</style>
<span>i would want</span>
<ul>
  <li>this</li>
  <li>on</li>
  <li>one line.</li>
</ul>

I want this to display inline in IE8. Everywhere I have read everything says this should work, IE8 supports inline-block. However after a morning of trying I cant get the above to line up. I know I could float it, but with the other elements on my page (not shown here) I would need to use a 'clearfix' which is more mark up. I only need to target IE8 and would love to know why inline block doesn't work for me when apparently its supported. The above code does what I want when viewed in Google Chrome.

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I'm guessing you haven't declared a doctype. Try placing this on the first line, before the html tag:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

The code you pasted works in IE8 with that doctype.

IE8 display inline-block not working

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