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Alexander Rechsteiner
Alexander Rechsteiner

Reputation: 5764

What is the latest jQuery version to work with IE8?

I'm working on a Bootstrap 3 site and I was having some issues with the jQuery version that I was using (1.9.1). I upgraded to 2.1.0 and my issues are gone, however, this breaks IE8 compatibility since 2.1.0 doesn't support IE8 anymore and jQuery seizes to work in this browser.

I can't use 1.1.0 because Bootstrap supports 1.9.0 or higher (also I'll have my issues back).

So the question is: Which is the highest version of jQuery that works with IE8?

The jQuery Browser Support Page only lists 1.11.0 and 1.9.1 so that's not helping.

Upvotes: 25

Views: 43556

Answers (1)

jwal
jwal

Reputation: 8290

IE8 support was dropped in jQuery 2.x, so you will want any version beginning with 1 that satisfies your plugin's version dependencies.

I would try the latest 1.11 or 1.10 first. 1.11 was released in early 2014. 1.10 was released mid-2013.

There may be some confusion with comparing minor version numbers. 1.11 > 1.10 > 1.9. We're comparing the second number as a number. Don't make the mistake of treating each digit as a value to compare.

Update: latest version compatible with IE8 is now 1.11.3 http://blog.jquery.com/2015/04/28/jquery-1-11-3-and-2-1-4-released-ios-fail-safe-edition/

Upvotes: 39

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