How can I determine which version of IE a user is running in JavaScript?

Question

In some existing code there is a test to see if the user is running IE, by checking if the object Browser.Engine.trident is defined and returns true.

But how can I deter

Answer 1

This is the script I use and it seems to work well enough:

// Returns 0 if the browser is anything but IE
function getIEVersion() {
   var ua = window.navigator.userAgent;
   var ie = ua.indexOf("MSIE ");
   return ((ie > 0) ? parseInt(ua.substring(ie+5, ua.indexOf(".", ie))) : 0);
}

Hope that helps someone...