Check if user is using IE

Question

I am calling a function like the one below by click on divs with a certain class.

Is there a way I can check when starting the function if a user is using Internet

Answer 1

It's several years later, and the Edge browser now uses Chromium as its rendering engine.
Checking for IE 11 is still a thing, sadly.

Here is a more straightforward approach, as ancient versions of IE should be gone.

if (window.document.documentMode) {
  // Do IE stuff
}

---

Here is my old answer (2014):

In Edge the User Agent String has changed.

/**
 * detect IEEdge
 * returns version of IE/Edge or false, if browser is not a Microsoft browser
 */
function detectIEEdge() {
    var ua = window.navigator.userAgent;

    var msie = ua.indexOf('MSIE ');
    if (msie > 0) {
        // IE 10 or older => return version number
        return parseInt(ua.substring(msie + 5, ua.indexOf('.', msie)), 10);
    }

    var trident = ua.indexOf('Trident/');
    if (trident > 0) {
        // IE 11 => return version number
        var rv = ua.indexOf('rv:');
        return parseInt(ua.substring(rv + 3, ua.indexOf('.', rv)), 10);
    }

    var edge = ua.indexOf('Edge/');
    if (edge > 0) {
       // Edge => return version number
       return parseInt(ua.substring(edge + 5, ua.indexOf('.', edge)), 10);
    }

    // other browser
    return false;
}

Sample usage:

alert('IEEdge ' + detectIEEdge());

Default string of IE 10:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)

Default string of IE 11:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko 

Default string of Edge 12:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0 

Default string of Edge 13 (thx @DrCord):

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2486.0 Safari/537.36 Edge/13.10586 

Default string of Edge 14:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2486.0 Safari/537.36 Edge/14.14300 

Default string of Edge 15:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36 Edge/15.15063 

Default string of Edge 16:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36 Edge/16.16299 

Default string of Edge 17:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134 

Default string of Edge 18 (Insider preview):

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; ServiceUI 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17730 

Test at CodePen:

http://codepen.io/gapcode/pen/vEJNZN

Answer 2

You can use the navigator object to detect user-navigator, you don't need jquery for it, the 4 comments below are already included so this snippet works as expected

if (/MSIE (\d+\.\d+);/.test(navigator.userAgent) || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Trident/") > -1 ){ 
 // Do stuff with Internet-Exploders ... :)
}

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/navigator.shtml

Answer 3

I just wanted to check if the browser was IE11 or older, because well, they're crap.

function isCrappyIE() {
    var ua = window.navigator.userAgent;
    var crappyIE = false;
    var msie = ua.indexOf('MSIE ');
    if (msie > 0) {// IE 10 or older => return version number        
        crappyIE = true;
    }
    var trident = ua.indexOf('Trident/');
    if (trident > 0) {// IE 11 => return version number        
        crappyIE = true;
    }
    return crappyIE;
}   

if(!isCrappyIE()){console.table('not a crappy browser);}

Answer 4

Necromancing.

In order to not depend on the user-agent string, just check for a few properties:

if (document.documentMode) 
{
    console.log('Hello Microsoft IE User!');
}

if (!document.documentMode && window.msWriteProfilerMark) {
    console.log('Hello Microsoft Edge User!');
}

if (document.documentMode || window.msWriteProfilerMark) 
{
    console.log('Hello Microsoft User!');
}

if (window.msWriteProfilerMark) 
{
    console.log('Hello Microsoft User in fewer characters!');
}

Also, this detects the new Chredge/Edgium (Anaheim):

function isEdg()
{ 

    for (var i = 0, u="Microsoft", l =u.length; i < navigator.plugins.length; i++)
    {
        if (navigator.plugins[i].name != null && navigator.plugins[i].name.substr(0, l) === u)
            return true;
    }

    return false;
}

And this detects chromium:

function isChromium()
{ 

    for (var i = 0, u="Chromium", l =u.length; i < navigator.plugins.length; i++)
    {
        if (navigator.plugins[i].name != null && navigator.plugins[i].name.substr(0, l) === u)
            return true;
    }

    return false;
}

And this Safari:

if(window.safari)
{
    console.log("Safari, yeah!");
}

Answer 5

I landed on this page in 2020, and I see that till IE5 all userAgent string have Trident, I'm not sure if they have changed anything. So checking only for Trident in the userAgent worked for me.

var isIE = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Trident') > -1;

Answer 6

I think it will help you Here

function checkIsIE() {
    var isIE = false;
    if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') !== -1 || navigator.appVersion.indexOf('Trident/') > 0) {
        isIE = true;
    }
    if (isIE)  // If Internet Explorer, return version number
    {
        kendo.ui.Window.fn._keydown = function (originalFn) {
            var KEY_ESC = 27;
            return function (e) {
                if (e.which !== KEY_ESC) {
                    originalFn.call(this, e);
                }
            };
        }(kendo.ui.Window.fn._keydown);

        var windowBrowser = $("#windowBrowser").kendoWindow({
            modal: true,
            id: 'dialogBrowser',
            visible: false,
            width: "40%",
            title: "Thông báo",
            scrollable: false,
            resizable: false,
            deactivate: false,
            position: {
                top: 100,
                left: '30%'
            }
        }).data('kendoWindow');
        var html = '<br /><div style="width:100%;text-align:center"><p style="color:red;font-weight:bold">Please use the browser below to use the tool</p>';
        html += '<img src="/Scripts/IPTVClearFeePackage_Box/Images/firefox.png"/>';
        html += ' <img src="/Scripts/IPTVClearFeePackage_Box/Images/chrome.png" />';
        html += ' <img src="/Scripts/IPTVClearFeePackage_Box/Images/opera.png" />';
        html += '<hr /><form><input type="button" class="btn btn-danger" value="Đóng trình duyệt" onclick="window.close()"></form><div>';
        windowBrowser.content(html);
        windowBrowser.open();

        $("#windowBrowser").parent().find(".k-window-titlebar").remove();
    }
    else  // If another browser, return 0
    {
        return false;
    }
}