How do I detect IE 8 with jQuery?

Question

I need to detect not only the browser type but version as well using jQuery. Mostly I need to find out if it is IE 8 or not.

I am not sure if I am doing it correctly

Answer 1

I think the best way would be this:

From HTML5 boilerplate:

in JS:

if( $("html").hasClass("ie8") ) { /* do your things */ };

especially since $.browser has been removed from jQuery 1.9+.