Why does jQuery's parents/closest(selector) functions behave differently in IE8?

It looks like you are running into one of the areas where the lack of support for HTML5 in IE8 is limiting you. If you change the sections to divs, the code works as is.

Looking at the selectors in your jsFiddle, I was able to get it to work fine in IE8 if I just got rid of the second part of the selector.

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