Detect Internet Explorer 6 or below in jQuery

Question

I\'m new to jquery and was wondering: is a simple way to detect whether a browser is Internet Explorer 6 or below?

Answer 1

jQuery checks for features, rather than "browsers". That said, you can use the jQuery.support method to detect what the users browser is capable of.

Deprecated Methods (Do not use)

• $.browser
• $.browser.version
• $.boxModel

https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.support will give you a summary of which features are supported by which browsers. Taking that data, you'll develop a couple conditional checks to determine if the browser being used is your target browser or not.