title: bootstrap 3 grid layout not working in IE8
body: <p>I've been trying to get the grid layout system of Bootstrap 3 to work well with IE8, but it just doesn't work. I do not have any need for a responsive layout.</p>
  
  <p>To be absolutely sure that I'm not introducing some random errors in the HTML file I've created, I went ahead and downloaded a fresh copy of Bootstrap 3. After extracting the contents, I opened the example grid HTML file (within the /examples/grid folder), and lo behold, even in the official distribution, the <em>grids appear stacked on top of each other</em>, instead of spanning across a row!</p>
  
  <p>What's strange though, when I browse to the <a href="http://getbootstrap.com/css/#forms-horizontal" rel="noreferrer">inline forms</a> section of the online documentation on my IE8, the grid layout seems to work just fine. </p>