You can try taking out the margin or padding, see if that fixes the issue. Otherwise, try specifying the class as an inline element. I think that when you specify a margin/padding for an element, IE will default that element to block. Since you are just modifying the font size, let it inherit the margin/padding from the h1 element. Then if you still need to space it properly, use padding-left.

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