Javascript for IE users is executed in others browsers but not IE

Question

From this previous question I found that the code below can determine if a user has IE, and then run js-code specific to them. But when I used the code on my site, the effect was the opposite. On other browsers the code is fired, on IE not. What am I doing wrong?

<![if !IE]>

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".box.2").fadeOut(1500);
});
</script>

<![endif]>

Alnitak · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-28T15:20:41.453

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Remove the ! in front of IE - it reverses the sense of the test and means don't do this on IE!

To ensure that other browsers ignore the text, write the comment thus:

<!--[if IE]>
...
<![endif]-->

NB: Microsoft have dropped support for conditional comments when using IE 10 in full HTML5 mode.

edited Sep 28 '12 at 15:20

answered Sep 28 '12 at 15:04

Alnitak

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I changed it to "<![if IE]>", but now the code is executed in both IE and Chrome – DannyCruzeira Sep 28 '12 at 15:09
Could it be that I have <![if IE]> in the body-section? – DannyCruzeira Sep 28 '12 at 15:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 28 '12 at 15:06

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Change <![if !IE]> to <![if IE]>

answered Sep 28 '12 at 15:06

Anoop

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 28 '12 at 15:06

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It's quite logical: when you check <![if !IE]>, your branching on !IE, not Internet Explorer, just drop the !: <![if IE]> and you're good to go. Like I'm ok to post this answer, having typed a sufficient amount of chars

answered Sep 28 '12 at 15:06

Elias Van Ootegem

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