Ie8 Is Adding A Trailing Slash To An Html5 Tag

My site is a Drupal 7 installation. Basically the

tag is at some point become

, and this breaks the site's layout in those browsers. Everything is up to d

Solution 1:

That's because IE8 doesn't support HTML5 elements. And because it doesn't understand the <main> element as a valid HTML element, it auto closes it.

You will either need to use an HTML5 shim for IE<9 or wrap the tag in a div with class="main" as a fallback.