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Asked: 2026-05-19T17:18:21+00:00

What I want to do is to check through a conditional comment if a

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What I want to do is to check through a conditional comment if a user is using IE6,7 or 8 and if he does then I want to load a different html file than my index.php.

I have been instructed to use a javascript like the one below:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $(body).html('Please download firefox or chrome to view this site');});

and then use the normal conditional comment structure with tag including the js file, but for some reason this doesn’t work.

Additionally as I said above I want to redirect the users in a new html file ex.main.html instead of index.php, if they are using IE as their browser. I do not want to use html code inside the comment, I want to somehow force the user be redirected to the new file.

Any ideas or guidance will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The simple solution, without JavaScript would look like this (put this in your <head>):

    <!--[if lte IE 8]><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://example.com/ie.html" /><![endif]-->

    This would redirect the user to http://example.com/ie.html (Just replace that part with the actual URL). Advantage of this solution: It does also work, if the user has deactivated JavaScript.

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