Have just finished a site using bootstrap. Works in browsers except in IE7 & 8 my css i.e. backgrounds, borders etc are not rendering.

Here is the link to the site www.coastalmonogramming.com.au/

I would appreciate your help please

Hello,

IE7 and 8 do not support any html5 elements or media queries. That's why you coastal.css styles are not loaded.
In the bootstrap/js folder of your website you will find a file called html5shiv.js. Link it before the closing </head> tag like:

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
      <script src="PATH-TO-YOUR-html5shiv.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->

This will fix your ancient IE versions issues.

Hi Teodor,

Thanks for looking into it but it did not work. I inserted the link before the </head> tag as such
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="bootstrap/js/html5shiv.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

But it made no change

Hi Teodor

Have you had a chance to solve this issue?
Regards. Bruce

Hi Teodor,

I really need an answer to this if you can

Thanks

Hello,
It seems the problem is that your styles are entirely placed inside media queries, and media queries do not work in such ancient browsers..

Please try the following: add this script after all of your css files, just before the closing head tag.

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/respond.js/1.3.0/respond.min.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->

Thank you Teodor - problem solved.

Should I download that js file and include it in my site root rather than have it directly link to another url ?

Hello, you can use it directly with the cdn link i sent you.

Yes but will it work if I create a js file with that as the content and include it to my root files with a link to it ?

Of course it will