title: IE8 Document mode issue
body: <p>Earlier today I asked a question and since then I have made a bit of progress in diagnosing the problem and have narrowed down the issue a little further. Here is the original question: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17864718/ie8-jquery-disappearing-elements-issue-only-working-in-quirks-mode?noredirect=1#comment26083510_17864718">IE8 JQuery Disappearing elements issue (only working in quirks mode)</a></p>
  
  <p>So, I realized that the document mode is important and I inserted the following line to force IE8 to render the page in IE9 mode:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt; meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=9" &gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This begs the question: What if the person is actually using IE8 (and not IE9 or IE10 and merely switching the browser mode through the Developer Tools?</p>
  
  <p>I still need to make sure that the document is being rendered properly. Does anyone know what measures I can take to make this happen?</p>