IE9 not rendering [display: table] CSS correctly?

Question

I have an MVC 4 application that is using Bootstrap. Part of the Header on the application is your typical Username and Password fields with a Login button and Remember Me Selection.

In Chrome everything renders correctly:

But in IE9 I see this:

HTML:

<div class="col-md-6 box">
        @if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
        {
            <div class="profileLinks">                    
                <a href="@organizationUrl">My Organizational Profile</a>
                |
                <a href="@userProfileUrl">My Profile</a>
            </div>
            <div class="content logout">                
                <div class="row">
                    <div>
                        Hi, @User.Identity.Name
                        @Html.ActionLink("Log Off", "LogOff", "Account", new {},new { @class = "btn btn-primary btn-sm" })
                    </div>
                </div>                
            </div>
        }
        else
        {
            <div class="content">
                <div class="row">
                    <div class="col-md-4">
                        <input type="text" id="username" placeholder="E-mail" required tabindex="1"/>
                        <a href="#" ><h6>Forgot your username?</h6></a>
                    </div>
                    <div class="col-md-4">
                        <input type="password" id="password" placeholder="Password" required tabindex="2" onkeyup="EnterKeyPressed()"/>
                        <a href="#" ><h6>Forgot your password?</h6></a>
                    </div>
                    <div class="col-md-4">
                        <input type="button" id="loginButton" value="Login" onclick="login()" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm" tabindex="3" onkeyup="EnterKeyPressed()"/>
                        <br />
                        <input type="checkbox" id="rememberMe">Remember Me
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        }
    </div>

CSS:

.row {
  margin-right: -15px;
  margin-left: -15px;
}

.row:before,
.row:after {
  display: table;
  content: " ";
}

.row:after {
  clear: both;
}

.row:before,
.row:after {
  display: table;
  content: " ";
}

.row:after {
  clear: both;
}

As best I can tell, IE9 seems to be having some sort of issue with the .row class from bootstrap.css . Does anyone have some ideas for how I might fix the rendering in IE9 to match that of Chrome, with the Username , Password , and Login Button fields all on the same respective " row "?

Answer 1

I found that by adding the following, everything was rendering as I desired in IE, as well as Chrome and Firefox:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">

IE=edge runs the page in the most up to date version of IE available.