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Asked: 2026-05-16T21:34:44+00:00

Isn’t HTML5 is supposed to work in IE9? It’s not working as expected for

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Isn’t HTML5 is supposed to work in IE9? It’s not working as expected for me.

Here is my HTML5 code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head><title>

    Dripel - Welcome

</title>
    <!--[if lt IE 9]> 
        <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script> 
    <![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
    <header>Welcome to Dripel</header>
    <section id="main">

        I am under development. Please check back later.

    </section>
    <footer>
    </footer>
</body>
</html>

You can view it at http://www.dripel.com/.

In IE 9, the <header> and <section> elements are being displayed as inline. Note that I am not using any CSS at this time.

Any idea what’s going on?

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to Dive into HTML5, the final version of Internet Explorer 9 won’t have this problem.

    So I reckon you’re seeing this because IE9 is still in beta. You’re right, you shouldn’t see this when it’s released.

    It’s probably worth including the explicit display: block for HTML5 elements anyway. You (usually) never know when someone’s going to look at your code in a pre-HTML5 browser.

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