JavaScript

jQuery Check Browser Version

Sam Deering
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Use jQuery to check your browser version in just a few lines of code you can optimise code for different browsers such as Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome and more. The jQuery functions jQuery.Browser() and jQuery.Browser.Version() do all the hard work for us!

Here is how you do it.

//Example: output all version information about current browser

jQuery.each(jQuery.browser, function(i, val) {
  $("

" + i + " : " + val + "")
			.appendTo( document.body );
});

Example outputs:

  • Internet Explorer: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
  • Mozilla/Firefox/Flock/Camino: 1.7.12, 1.8.1.3, 1.9
  • Opera: 10.06, 11.01
  • Safari/Webkit: 312.8, 418.9

 

//Example: Alerts “Do stuff for firefox 3” only for firefox 3 browsers.

var ua = $.browser;
if ( ua.mozilla && ua.version.slice(0,3) == "1.9" ) {
	alert( "Do stuff for firefox 3" );
}

//Example: Set a CSS property to specific browser.

if ( $.browser.msie ) {
	$("#div ul li").css( "display","inline" );
} else {
	$("#div ul li").css( "display","inline-table" );
}