JavaScript Browser Detection

JavaScript Browser Detection Browser detection allows you to find out what browser your viewer is using, and then perform a script based on it-- or just to send a friendly message to those with your favorite browser.

There are two objects often used for this, the navigator.appName and navigator.appVersion objects. The first one returns the name of the browser, the second returns the version of the browser.

If the browser is Netscape, navigator.appName returns the string "Netscape". If it is Internet Explorer, it returns the string "Microsoft Internet Explorer". Using just this, you could make a script to alert people as to what browser they are using (just to bug them). Like this:

You can do the same thing with the navigator.appVersion, except you will most likely want to grab just the integer from the version information (2,3,4, etc.). To do this, we use the parseInt() function:

var browserVer=parseInt(navigator.appVersion);

Now, it returns only the integer value and not something likeversion 4.51. It just sends back 4 in that case. Thus, we could alertviewers as to whether their browser is new enough for us or not:

<HEAD><SCRIPT language="JavaScript"></SCRIPT></HEAD>

Of course, you can use both objects to be more exact. You could look for a certain set of browsers and only if they are above a certain version:

<HEAD>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">

</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>

As you can see, that uses a lot of the logical operators from a previous section.It is basically saying that "if the browser name is Netscape and it isversion 3 or greater, OR if the browser name is Microsoft InternetExplorer and the version is 4 or greater, then we will assign thevariable version as 'n3'. Otherwise, it is going to be 'n2.' Then wemove on to the rest."

One of the more common uses for browser detection is to redirect a viewer to a page made for his/her browser type or browser version. We will discuss that in the next section on redirection.

Well, that does it for now. Let's go check out the next section, Redirection with JavaScript.

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