UI issue only occurs in IE

We have a page UI working unexpected in IE which is missing style of float and position. Other browsers are fine. 

With IE developer tool (F12), I see a information in the console saying that "the attached page targets document mode 7. some console apis and features may not be available"

After added below line in the head tag, it works in IE

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19784822/does-meta-http-equiv-x-ua-compatible-content-ie-edge-impact-on-non-ie-explor