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Asked: 2026-06-13T02:59:42+00:00

The lowest browser my application supports is IE 7. I have some code that

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The lowest browser my application supports is IE 7. I have some code that works fine in IE 8, but needs to be avoided in IE 7. There are a ton of questions/answers on here that indicate how to detect IE 7 with .browser but none that indicate how to detect only IE 7 with .support. The jQuery page detailing .support does not make it clear which supported features are present in which browsers, so not getting much help there.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The reason they deprecated .browser is to try to encourage us to test for features instead of browsers.

    However.. if you still need to…

    Have you considered using H5BP’s conditional <html> trick and then just testing for that? Header:

    <!--[if lt IE 7]>      <html class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7]>         <html class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8]>         <html class="no-js lt-ie9"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 8]><!--> <html class="no-js"> <!--<![endif]-->

    Then in jQuery,

    $(function() {
    if( !$('html').hasClass('lt-ie8') ) {
        // Do stuff
    }
});
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