I\'m trying to find a way to display one link to an IE user and another link to all other browsers using javascript or conditional comments (or whatever it takes).
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One way that I've figured out how to do it:
Get the javascript code from http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html and put it in the <head>
tag.
Then in your <body>
tag use:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (BrowserDetect.browser == 'Explorer') {
document.write('<a href="#">Explorer</a>');
} else {
document.write('<a href="#">Other Browsers</a>');
}
// -->
</script>
Not sure if this is the most simple way to do it but it got the job done.
This is the Microsoft-approved way:
<!--[if IE]>
<a href="ie-only.html">click here!</a>
<![endif]-->
<![if !IE]>
<a href="all-other-browsers.html">click here!</a>
<![endif]>
More information available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512(VS.85).aspx.
This code is implicitly guaranteed to work in all current and future versions of IE starting with IE 5. For non-IE browsers, the code works by relying on those browsers ignoring the "nonsensical" <![if !IE]>
tag, which they all do, and I've never seen it fail. For a version that uses nothing but good ol' HTML comments, see bobince's answer, which I actually prefer to the Microsoft-provided solution.
Add this to your header :
<script src="http://github.com/rafaelp/css_browser_selector/raw/master/css_browser_selector.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Then whatever you want to your .css page :
/* Chrome Only */
.chrome embed {
display: none;
}
/* Firefox Only */
.gecko video {
display: none;
}
Source : http://rafael.adm.br/css_browser_selector/
Available Browser Codes [browser]:
ie - Internet Explorer (All versions)
ie8 - Internet Explorer 8.x
ie7 - Internet Explorer 7.x
ie6 - Internet Explorer 6.x
ie5 - Internet Explorer 5.x
gecko - Mozilla, Firefox (all versions), Camino
ff2 - Firefox 2
ff3 - Firefox 3
ff3_5 - Firefox 3.5
ff3_6 - Firefox 3.6 new
opera - Opera (All versions)
opera8 - Opera 8.x
opera9 - Opera 9.x
opera10 - Opera 10.x
konqueror - Konqueror
webkit or safari - Safari, NetNewsWire, OmniWeb, Shiira, Google Chrome
safari3 - Safari 3.x
chrome - Google Chrome
iron - SRWare Iron
A shot in the dark, maybe, but would this work?
<style>
a.forIeOnly {display: none; }
a.notForIe {display: block; }
</style>
<!--[if ie]>
<style>
a.forIeOnly {display: block;}
a.notForIe {display: none; }
</style>
<![endif]-->
<a href="#" class="forIeOnly">Link One</a>
<a href="#" class="notForIe">Link Two</a>
It's nowhere near as clean/attractive as an if/else statement could be, but...it was the easiest way I could think of to implement a solution. Though it may well be fraught with issues all of its own.
I don't think this is possible with conditional comment tags (which only work in internet explorer)
Sure it is. You just have to leave the content for non-IE browsers in a position such that it's part of a conditional comment clause but not actually inside a <!-- comment -->. Then browsers that don't know about conditional comments will see the content fine. This is known as a downlevel-revealed conditional comment.
Unfortunately the markup Microsoft give you there is invalid HTML (and not even well-formed XML). To make it pass muster you just need a few additional ‘--’s:
<!--[if IE]> This is IE! <![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]><!--> This ain't IE! <!--<![endif]-->
Although I have to echo AnonJr's non-answer, in that it's rare you should need a completely separate link/page for IE compared to other browsers. If you're doing something tricky like complex VML and ActiveX work in IE with Flash on other browsers I guess there could be a reason for it, but usually a few CSS and script hacks over the same basic page should suffice.
You could always use CSS to hide the code from specific browsers. For instance, considering the following code:
<a href"ie-only.html" id="ie-only">click here!</a>
<a href"all-other-browsers.html" id="other-browsers">click here!</a>
You could apply the following CSS hacks, and the appropriate links would be displayed to the appropriate browsers.
/* Display settings for most browsers */
#ie-only {display: none;}
#other-browsers {display: block;}
/* Display settings for IE <= 6 */
* html #ie-only {display: block;}
* html #other-browsers {display: none;}