jquery autocomplete combobox not rendering in Compatibility moed, IE8 and below

jquery autocomplete combobox not rendering in Compatibility moed, IE8 and below

I have created a jquery autocomplete combobox,  FiddleDemo . It works with IE 9 and IE10, but not in IE 8 and below.

Can anyone help me out please.

I have added the following that do not help either

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge;chrome=1" />