How do I detect IE8, using JQuery?

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how do i detect ie 8 with jquery

Hi All,

I was on here looking for a JQuery snippet to detect IE8. This is what I found, see below:

    if(jQuery.browser.version.substring(0, 2) == "8.") { 
        $('#step-1').css({'margin-left':'8px'});
     }

I found this but it doesnt seem to be working...Can someone advise me where I might be going wrong...or have other suggestions.

Thanks

Browser detection is usually a bad thing to do. If you have differences in how browser display your CSS, then there are usually better ways to correct that, but you'd have to explain the actual problem more closely. — RoToRa, Jan 26 '11 at 14:55

Šime Vidas · Answer 1 · 2012-06-02T13:36:57.617

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var isIE8 = $.browser.msie && +$.browser.version === 8;

if ( isIE8 ) {
    // do stuff
}

edited Jun 02 '12 at 13:36

answered Jan 26 '11 at 15:09

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score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 26 '11 at 14:55

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use $.browser.msie for detecting IE and $.browser.version for getting the version

answered Jan 26 '11 at 14:55

Kris Ivanov

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FYI jquery.browser is removed in 1.9 – kmdsax Nov 27 '13 at 15:49

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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See the following SO questions:

How do I detect IE 8 with jQuery?
When IE8 is not IE8 what is $.browser.version?
Detect IE6 with Jquery

Try and use the ninja search. http://www.stackoverflow.com/search

I set the google stackoverflow search with a keyword "so" on Google Chrome, found those questions in 3 secs ;)

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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gideon

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 26 '11 at 14:56

Jquery has default functionality for this. You can read about it here.

For example:

<script>
    jQuery.each(jQuery.browser, function(i, val) {
      $("<div>" + i + " : <span>" + val + "</span>")
                .appendTo(document.body);
    });
</script>

Which will result in;

MSIE : true
version : 8.0

How do I detect IE8, using JQuery?

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