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Detect Internet Explorer 6 or below in jQuery

Is there a way of detecting if the browser is pre IE7 (so IE6 or before) using javascript or jQuery?

I found a similar question on here where the answer was basically “don’t do that”. Well, I don’t care, I still want to 🙂

Answer 1

The most effective way:

<!--[if lte IE 6]> insert code here <![endif]-->

If you want to run some JavaScript for only IE 6 and below, put a script block inside that conditional comment.

Reasons to use:

• only recognised by IE (others see a comment)
• you can put IE-only hacks that may be invalid syntax and it’ll still be valid (it’s a comment)
• you can put IE-only hacks in CSS, HTML and JavaScript all with this syntax