browser detection

[emma81]

Hi, I'm very new to javascrip and was wondering if anyone could help me with my problem.

I need to know how to code a button to detect a user's browser version and display it in an alert box??

I've looked up many resources and do not understand how to code browser detection within a button.


Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou.


Emma

[bacterozoid]

Wow, for being fairly incompetent at writing codes myself, I did a good job with this one!

In your head tag, put this:


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function dothis() {
alert(navigator.appVersion) }
</SCRIPT>


Then, for your button, put this wherever you want it to appear on the page.


<input type="button" value="Button" name="button" onClick=dothis()>




An alternative:



<input type="button" value="Button" name="button" onClick=alert(navigator.appVersion)>


Use that if you don't feel like putting that extra script in your head tag.


To see it in action:

http://www.geocities.com/jon_zie/scripts/navigatorversion.htm

[emma81]

Thankyou very much for helping me out- the code was so simple - i feel so stupid.

I'm starting to grasp it now

:))

[bacterozoid]

Hey, no problem, we all feel stupid now and then. ;) You will get the hang of it in no time.

[Mhtml]

Whammy and I worked on something to get browser names and versions but in the end Whammy made an extremly great script but it could only get the browser type 90% of the time, it is just not possible to get the browser type right every time..YET!

http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6586

[brothercake]

I have this, which recognises the major browsers and groups all others together. I find it useful for scripting. http://www.brothercake.com/scripts/sniffer.php