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How can I use javascript to check for the IE version of a browser?

Apr 7th, 2008 23:25
ha mo, Jean-Bernard Valentaten, tola,

JavaScript has an object called navigator, which has the following 
properties that might help you:
appName -> string containing the browser name, NN will 
return 'Netscape', MSIE returns 'Microsoft Internet Explorer'
appVersion -> string containing version, subversion and some other 
information (try it out *g*)
Here's a little example what could be done with that information:
function whichBrowser()
{
  var myApp = navigator.appName;
  var myVers = navigator.appVersion.split(' ')[0];
  alert('You are using ' + myApp + ' ' + myVers);
}
HTH,
Jean
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