jsTree display flaw in IE8
You are missing the !DOCTYPE
declaration. Add the following to the top of your page and that should fix the problem...
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10091914/jstree-display-flaw-in-ie8