I used CSS for a color change on hover for a table #tabb tbody

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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T01:27:43+00:00 2026-05-23T01:27:43+00:00

I used CSS for a color change on hover for a table

#tabb tbody tr:hover td{
    color:#006;
    background:#d0e4f2;
}

This works fine in Chrome and Firefox, but the hover effect does not happen in Internet Explorer 8.

Is there a way to make this effect work with IE8 as well?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-23T01:27:44+00:00

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That should work fine in IE8.

A stab in the dark:

Make sure you have a doctype as the very first line of your HTML that triggers Standards Mode, such as:

<!DOCTYPE html>

In Quirks Mode, IE emulates version 5.5, which does not support :hover on elements other than a.

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