figure and figcaption using html5 shiv in IE 8

I have a gallery in which i'm using the figure and figcaption tags. This displays fine in all modern browsers but in IE8 it breaks the CSS for the figure and figcaption tags because the browser doesn't support them. Just including the html5shiv library doesn't fix it. Is there a method within that I would have to call?

Solution

the problem was that the figure element did not automatically size to the picture it contained so it needed to be specifically set in the CSS

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