title: Why would ie8 center text when the text-align is set to left?
body: <p>Using ie8's own dev tools it shows the elements text-align value as left, but it is rendered centered in ie8 standards mode.
  In quirks or ie7 standards, everything is correctly aligned left.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ox5QK.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ox5QK.png" alt="Screenshot of IE Developer tools illustrating the issue"></a></p>