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Tom
Tom

Reputation: 446

How to redirect Internet Explorer users to a new page?

I have tried using the following script

[if IE]
<script type="text/javascript">
window.location = "error.html";
</script>
[endif]

It works like a treat apart from the fact that other browsers such as Chrome are also redirecting to the error.html page. What is wrong with it? Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6917

Answers (4)

Gerrit Luimstra
Gerrit Luimstra

Reputation: 532

I know there have been answers all around, but here is in my opinion the most complete answer..

HTML

<p>Is this internet explorer?<p>
<p id="ie"></p>

And now the JavaScript

if(detectIE()){
  document.getElementById("ie").innerHTML = "Yes it is!";
} else {
  document.getElementById("ie").innerHTML = "No it's not!";
}

function detectIE() {
  var ua = window.navigator.userAgent;

  var msie = ua.indexOf('MSIE ');
   if (msie > 0) {
     return true;
   }

  var trident = ua.indexOf('Trident/');
   if (trident > 0) {
    return true;
   }

  var edge = ua.indexOf('Edge/');
  if (edge > 0) {
    return true;
  }

  // other browser
  return false;
}

Working example: https://codepen.io/gerritman123/pen/VjrONQ

Upvotes: 2

Bernd
Bernd

Reputation: 730

Try this:

<script type="text/javascript">
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Internet Explorer")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv[ :]*11\./))
{
   //This user uses Internet Explorer
   window.location = "error.html";
}
</script>

Greetings from Vienna

Upvotes: 6

mailmindlin
mailmindlin

Reputation: 624

Try this:

if (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE ") > 0)
    window.location="error.html";

Upvotes: -1

Jmh2013
Jmh2013

Reputation: 2777

You need to use conditional comments.

Keep in mind though, IE10+ does not respect these conditional comments and will treat them the same way Firefox and Chrome does.

<!--[if IE]>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.location = "error.html";
</script>
<![endif]-->

Upvotes: 0

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