Programatically detect IE6 or IE7 ?

[tcurrier]

Hello,

Is there a way in Javascript to tell if a user has IE7 vs. IE6 ?

Thanks for any help....

[AricC]

This page should help you out.

[tcurrier]

Thanks.... I tried the code suggested, but it tells me that I have version 4 of MSIE when I actually have version 7.

Any ideas ?

[acoder]

On that page, it has the following:

IMPORTANT! The version number is WRONG in IE 5.0 or later! Microsoft starts the appVersion string with the number 4.0. in IE 5.0 and IE 6.0!!! Why did they do that??? However, JavaScript is the same in IE6, IE5 and IE4, so for most scripts it is ok.

[acoder]

Instead of using appVersion, use navigator.userA gent instead then use a regular expression to parse it to find the version number as explained from the horse's mouth.

[acoder]

You can also use conditional compilation. The j_script_versio n for IE7 is 5.7

Yet another option is conditional comments:
<!–[if IE 7]>
// ie7 code
<![endif]–>
See here .