A jQuery plugin for browser detection. jQuery removed support for browser detection on 1.9.1 so it was abstracted into a jQuery plugin
Include script after the jQuery library:
<script src="/path/to/jquery.browser.js"></script>
Returns true if the current useragent is some version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Supports all IE versions including IE11
$.browser.msie;
Returns true if the current useragent is some version of a WebKit browser (Safari, Chrome and Opera 15+)
$.browser.webkit;
Returns true if the current useragent is some version of Firefox
$.browser.mozilla;
Reading the browser verion
$.browser.version
- Detect Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android, Chrome OS, and Windows Phone useragents, in addition to desktop and mobile browsers
$.browser.ipad
$.browser.iphone
$.browser["windows phone"]
$.browser.android
$.browser.cros
$.browser.win
$.browser.mac
$.browser.linux
$.browser.desktop
$.browser.mobile // User Agent for Firefox on Windows
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0
$.browser.desktop // Returns true as a boolean // User Agent for Safari on iPhone
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B508 Safari/9537.53
$.browser.mobile // Returns true as a boolean- Detect the browser's major version
// User Agent for Chrome
// Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1664.3 Safari/537.36
$.browser.versionNumber // Returns 32 as a number- Support for new useragent on IE11
- Support for WebKit based Opera browsers
- Added testing using PhantomJS and different browser user agents
Testing for this plugin is done with Casperjs v1.1 to take advantage of multiple phantomjs browsers with different user agents.
For instructions on how to install Casperjs v1.1 go to http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/installation.html
Note: Testing requires Casperjs v1.1
Install the grunt-cli dependency by running npm install -g grunt-cli
Run npm install to install all dependencies including grunt and all tasks
Once Casperjs and the grunt-cli npm package is installed you can execute all the tests by using:
grunt test
- Source hosted at GitHub
- Report issues, questions, feature requests on GitHub Issues
