text-overflow ellipsis on table cell does not work in IE8 and IE9

Question

This code works in every browser just fine, of course except IE8 and IE9. Unfortunately those specific users are not allowed to use any other browsers in their environment. Googled for 3 hours, tried all possible CSS solutions, but it wont work. Please advice.

table-layout: fixed is not going to work, because table cells need to have specific width.

http://jsfiddle.net/s7va8mLc/1/

http://jsfiddle.net/s7va8mLc/1/embedded/result/ (for IE8 view)

HTML:

<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Test</th>
        <td>
            Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

CSS:

table {
    width: 500px;
    border: 1px dotted blue;
}

th {
    width: 250px;
}

td {
    width: 250px;
    max-width: 250px;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    border: 1px dotted red;
}

Expected result:

IE8-9 result:

Answer 1

Try this, hope it helps (tested in IE8 natively).

http://jsfiddle.net/s7va8mLc/7/

http://jsfiddle.net/s7va8mLc/7/embedded/result/

HTML

<table>
 <tr>
    <th>Test</th>
    <td>
        <span>
            Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
        </span>
    </td>
 </tr>
</table>

CSS

table {
    width: 500px;
    border: 1px dotted blue;
}
th {
    width: 250px;
}
td, span {
    width: 250px;
    white-space: nowrap;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
span {
    display: block;
    border: 1px dotted red;
}