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Jason Lipo
Jason Lipo

Reputation: 761

Javascript/jQuery browser detection

I'm making a webpage for a browser extension and I want the download button to automatically download the relevant file for the browser the user is on.

I've found that jQuery's $.browser feature is now deprecated, so is there an easy way of detecting the user's browser?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7491

Answers (3)

Ishan Jain
Ishan Jain

Reputation: 8171

If you want information about the browser that your visitor uses, and use it for statistics or displaying information to the user, you can use the jQuery Browser Plugin.

you can also use - navigator.userAgent for detect user browser.

Upvotes: 2

Praveen
Praveen

Reputation: 56549

Try to detect the features instead using jQuery.support

EDIT:

Then you can do it simply using navigator.userAgent (though parsing needed)

Decrypting the User Agent String in JavaScript

Upvotes: 1

MrBilde
MrBilde

Reputation: 43

It can still be a pain with all the browser specific dependencies in old jQuery plugins.

Try using jQBrowser: http://davecardwell.co.uk/javascript/jquery/plugins/jquery-browserdetect/

Almost same syntax:

$.browser.browser();
$.browser.version.number();

Upvotes: 0

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