How can I detect IE 7 and IE 8 using jQuery.support properties?
Is it possible to detect the browser versions using jQuery.support or just those blah blah blah browser features?
How can I detect IE 7 and IE 8 using jQuery.support properties?
Is it possible to detect the browser versions using jQuery.support or just those blah blah blah browser features?
This is totally possible with support:
if (!$.support.leadingWhitespace) {
//IE7 and 8 stuff
}
This also detects IE 6 however, if you don't want IE 6 to run this code block, you will need another flag to exclude it
A good reason for not using browser is it is a deprecated feature, and it will likely be removed to a plugin with version 1.9. (See the comments on the answer to How to detect IE7 with jQuery?)
"We recommend against using this property; please try to use feature detection instead (see jQuery.support). jQuery.browser may be moved to a plugin in a future release of jQuery" http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/
here is a working example: http://jsfiddle.net/AGtG8/16/
if (jQuery.support.leadingWhitespace == false){
... code for IE7-IE8 ...
}
else {
...
}
Be careful with the following because it also includes IE10:
if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version.substr(0,1)<7) {
//<IE7
}
better use:
if ($.browser.msie && parseInt($.browser.version,10)<7) {
//<IE7
}
One trick I found is to add Conditionnal Tags in the HTML
<!--[if lt IE 7]><body class="ie ie6 lte9 lte8 lte7"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]><body class="ie ie7 lte9 lte8 lte7"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]><body class="ie ie8 lte9 lte8"><![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9]><body class="ie ie9 lte9"><![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]><!--><body class="not-ie"><!--<![endif]-->
Then use JQuery like this :
$('body.ie7')
It also helps for CSS on IE specific
body.ie6{ margin: 0; }
I don't know if it's good for you but anyways, that's still an option.
as explained, .support
is for feature-detection. if you want to detect the browser, just use .browser
.
var ua = $.browser;
if ( ua.msie && ua.version.slice(0,1) == "8" ) {
alert('IE 8');
} else if ( ua.msie && ua.version.slice(0,1) == "7" ) {
alert('IE 7');
} else {
alert('something else');
}
jQuery.support is for detecting browser features. To detect browser version use jQuery.browser:
if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version.substr(0,1)<7) {
//IE7
}
Update: $.browser is deprecated now, don't use it.
I've noticed many different ways of doing this, this DOESN'T use $.support
although I've found that this works very well. Also just as a note, jquery has just announced that they will be removing any support for IE 6,7,8 in jquery 2.0 (http://blog.jquery.com/2012/06/28/jquery-core-version-1-9-and-beyond/).
var msVersion = navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE ([0-9]{1,}[\.0-9]{0,})/),
msie = !!msVersion,
ie6 = msie && parseFloat(msVersion[1]) < 7;
// Help prevent flashes of unstyled content
if (!ie6) {
//Do Something here.
}
Happy coding!
I use this to check if browser is ie 8 or less
to change the ie version simply update the 8 to another ie verion
if (jQuery.browser.msie && jQuery.browser.version.substr(0,1) <= 8 ) {
runIECode();
} else {
runOther();
}
I added few lines of Javascript to make it work again:
jQuery.uaMatch = function (ua) {
ua = ua.toLowerCase();
var match = /(chrome)[ \/]([\w.]+)/.exec(ua) ||
/(webkit)[ \/]([\w.]+)/.exec(ua) ||
/(opera)(?:.*version|)[ \/]([\w.]+)/.exec(ua) ||
/(msie) ([\w.]+)/.exec(ua) ||
ua.indexOf("compatible") < 0 && /(mozilla)(?:.*? rv:([\w.]+)|)/.exec(ua) ||
[];
return {
browser: match[ 1 ] || "",
version: match[ 2 ] || "0"
};
};
if (!jQuery.browser) {
matched = jQuery.uaMatch(navigator.userAgent);
browser = {};
if (matched.browser) {
browser[ matched.browser ] = true;
browser.version = matched.version;
}
// Chrome is Webkit, but Webkit is also Safari.
if (browser.chrome) {
browser.webkit = true;
} else if (browser.webkit) {
browser.safari = true;
}
jQuery.browser = browser;
}
if (/MSIE (\d+\.\d+);/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
var ieversion = new Number(RegExp.$1);
alert(ieversion < 9);
}
Use jQuery.browser.version instead of support
Try $.browser, it will let you know if browser version is less than IE9
var isM = false;
$.each($.browser, function (i, val) {
if ($.browser.msie && parseInt(val) < 9) isM = true;
});