if condition: if the browser is IE and IE browser version is older than 9

Question

The if condition below I think it says - if the browser is IE and IE browser version is newer than 9, but I don\'t have IE 9 to test it so it is hard to know the correct out

Answer 1

There's an even easier method.

Since this is a comment, it will be ignored by all other browsers except IE.

var IE;
//@cc_on IE = navigator.appVersion;

Then just use this in you'r script to detect all IE versions.

if (IE) {
//This is IE.
}
else {
//This is NOT IE.
}

Or match against any version like this:

if (IE <= 6) {}, if (IE < 9) }, if (IE == 7) {} etc etc...

Here's the source where i found these types of conditionals: http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/conditionalcompile.shtml