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Asked: 2026-06-12T07:37:52+00:00

Is there a way to detect all browsers but IE for a redirect with

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Is there a way to detect all browsers but IE for a redirect with either HTAccess or Javascript? Something like if not IE, redirect to site.com?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would suggest using IE’s conditional comments rather since that would mean that the redirect code will not be even interpreted by IE. i.e. IE wont have run the JS code at all, only other browsers will.

    Redirection using JS

    <!--[if !IE]> -->
    <script>
    window.location.href = 'http://not-ie.com'
    </script>
<!-- <![endif]-->

    Redirection using meta refresh

    <!--[if !IE]> -->
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://not-ie.com/"> 
<!-- <![endif]-->

    Technique for not showing the page before redirection

    You can do this by rendering the <body> tag conditionally. Disclaimer: haven’t tested this.

    <!-- for non-ie browsers, render the body tag as invisible -->
<!--[if !IE]> -->
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://not-ie.com/"> 
    <body style="display: none">
<!-- <![endif]-->

<!-- for ie, render the body tag normally -->
<!--[if IE]> -->
    <body>
<!-- <![endif]-->

<!-- your page content HTML goes here -->

</body></html>

    For more info on conditional comments: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html

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