If your website doesn’t display properly in IE8, then it’s recommended that you amend your code, but in the meantime you could force Internet Explorer 8 to run in the compatibility mode.
Simply add the below line to the top of the <head></head> section of your website:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
An example of this is place would be:
<head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> </head>
This must be the first meta tag in your code, otherwise it doesn’t work.