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Asked: 2026-06-12T10:37:49+00:00

We have recently developed a website with a strong reliance on Font Awesome as

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We have recently developed a website with a strong reliance on Font Awesome as part of it’s design. We’re using the standard implementation with before:content and their supplied CSS.

For some reason Font Awesome isn’t displaying in IE8. I’ve spent quite a few hours troubleshooting and trying various fixes, with no luck.

I have:

  • Set the mimetype of EOT to application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  • Set the mimetype of OTF, TTF to application/octet-stream
  • Executed HTML5Shiv after all CSS has been loaded.
  • Various attempts to reload the CSS or DOM on page load

Here is the website: http://www.tetakere.org.nz – the Hotlinks box is a good example of Font Awesome

Has anyone got any ideas on other approaches to getting this website to display Font Awesome?

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  1. Editorial Team

    After some painful troubleshooting I finally worked it out.

    The solution was to move the loading of HTML5Shiv from the <head> section to just before the </body> tag.

    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="//html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
</body>
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