How to detect IE11?

Question

When I want to detect IE I use this code:

function getInternetExplorerVersion()
{
  var rv = -1;
  if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer')
  {
    var ua = navigator.userAgent;
    var re  = new RegExp("MSIE ([0-9]{1,}[\.0-9]{0,})");
    if (re.exec(ua) != null)
      rv = parseFloat( RegExp.$1 );
  }
  return rv;
}
function checkVersion()
{
  var msg = "You're not using Internet Explorer.";
  var ver = getInternetExplorerVersion();

  if ( ver > -1 )
  {
    msg = "You are using IE " + ver;
  }
  alert( msg );
}

But IE11 is returning "You're not using Internet Explorer". How can I detect it?

Answer 1

I used the onscroll event at the element with the scrollbar. When triggered in IE, I added the following validation:

onscroll="if (document.activeElement==this) ignoreHideOptions()"

Answer 2

solution :

function GetIEVersion() {
  var sAgent = window.navigator.userAgent;
  var Idx = sAgent.indexOf("MSIE");
  // If IE, return version number.
  if (Idx > 0)
    return parseInt(sAgent.substring(Idx+ 5, sAgent.indexOf(".", Idx)));

  // If IE 11 then look for Updated user agent string.
  else if (!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident\/7\./))
    return 11;

  else
    return 0; //It is not IE

}
if ((GetIEVersion() > 0) || (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('firefox') > -1)){
  alert("This is IE " + GetIEVersion());
}else {
  alert("This no is IE ");
}		

Answer 3

Use !(window.ActiveXObject) && "ActiveXObject" in window to detect IE11 explicitly.

To detect any IE (pre-Edge, "Trident") version, use "ActiveXObject" in window instead.

Answer 4

Angular JS does this way.

msie = parseInt((/msie (\d+)/.exec(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()) || [])[1]);
if (isNaN(msie)) {
  msie = parseInt((/trident\/.*; rv:(\d+)/.exec(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()) || [])[1]);
}

msie will be positive number if its IE and NaN for other browser like chrome,firefox.

why ?

As of Internet Explorer 11, the user-agent string has changed significantly.

refer this :

msdn #1 msdn #2

Answer 5

I'm using a simpler method:

The navigator global object has a property touchpoints, in Internet Exlorer 11 is called msMaxTouchPoints tho.

So if you look for:

navigator.msMaxTouchPoints !== void 0 

You will find Internet Explorer 11.

Answer 6

Get IE Version from the User-Agent

var ie = 0;
try { ie = navigator.userAgent.match( /(MSIE |Trident.*rv[ :])([0-9]+)/ )[ 2 ]; }
catch(e){}

How it works: The user-agent string for all IE versions includes a portion "MSIE space version" or "Trident other-text rv space-or-colon version". Knowing this, we grab the version number from a String.match() regular expression. A try-catch block is used to shorten the code, otherwise we'd need to test the array bounds for non-IE browsers.

Note: The user-agent can be spoofed or omitted, sometimes unintentionally if the user has set their browser to a "compatibility mode". Though this doesn't seem like much of an issue in practice.

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Get IE Version without the User-Agent

var d = document, w = window;
var ie = ( !!w.MSInputMethodContext ? 11 : !d.all ? 99 : w.atob ? 10 : 
d.addEventListener ? 9 : d.querySelector ? 8 : w.XMLHttpRequest ? 7 : 
d.compatMode ? 6 : w.attachEvent ? 5 : 1 );

How it works: Each version of IE adds support for additional features not found in previous versions. So we can test for the features in a top-down manner. A ternary sequence is used here for brevity, though if-then and switch statements would work just as well. The variable ie is set to an integer 5-11, or 1 for older, or 99 for newer/non-IE. You can set it to 0 if you just want to test for IE 1-11 exactly.

Note: Object detection may break if your code is run on a page with third-party scripts that add polyfills for things like document.addEventListener. In such situations the user-agent is the best option.

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Detect if the Browser is Modern

If you're only interested in whether or not a browser supports most HTML 5 and CSS 3 standards, you can reasonably assume that IE 8 and lower remain the primary problem apps. Testing for window.getComputedStyle will give you a fairly good mix of modern browsers, as well (IE 9, FF 4, Chrome 11, Safari 5, Opera 11.5). IE 9 greatly improves on standards support, but native CSS animation requires IE 10.

var isModernBrowser = ( !document.all || ( document.all && document.addEventListener ) );