How can I detect Internet Explorer IE and Microsoft Edge using JavaScript

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I ve looked around a lot  and I understand that there s a lot of ways to detect internet explorer  My problem is this  I have an area on my HTML document  that when clicked  calls a JavaScript function that is incompatible with internet explorer of any kind  I want to detect if IE is being used  and if so  set the variable to true  The problem is  I am writing my code out of Notepad    and when I run the HTML code in browser  none of the methods for detecting IE work  I think the problem is that I am running it out of Notepad    I need to be able to detect IE  so that based on the variable  I can disable that area of the site  I have tried this  var isIE10   false   if  navigator userAgent indexOf  quot MSIE 10 quot    gt  -1           this is internet explorer 10     isIE10   true     window alert isIE10      var isIE    navigator userAgent indexOf  quot MSIE quot      -1    if isIE       if  isIE10       window location    pages core ie htm            but it doesn t work  How can I detect IE out of Notepad    That s what I m testing the HTML out of  but I need a method that ll work with that  edit I noticed someone has marked this as a duplicate  and that is understandable  I suppose I was not clear   I cannot use a JQuery answer  so this is not a duplicate as I am asking for a vanilla JS answer  Edit  2 Is there also a way to detect the Microsoft Edge browser

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I don t know why  but I m not seeing  Edge  in the userAgent like everyone else is talking about  so I had to take another route that may help some people   Instead of looking at the navigator userAgent  I looked at navigator appName to distinguish if it was IE lt  10 or IE11 and Edge  IE11 and Edge use the appName of  Netscape   while every other iteration uses  Microsoft Internet Explorer     After we determine that the browser is either IE11 or Edge  I then looked to navigator appVersion  I noticed that in IE11 the string was rather long with a lot of information inside of it  I arbitrarily picked out the word  Trident   which is definitely not in the navigator appVersion for Edge  Testing for this word allowed me to distinguish the two   Below is a function that will return a numerical value of which Internet Explorer the user is on  If on Microsoft Edge it returns the number 12   Good luck and I hope this helps   function Check Version        var rv   -1     Return value assumes failure       if  navigator appName     Microsoft Internet Explorer            var ua   navigator userAgent             re    new RegExp  MSIE   0-9  1      0-9  0               if  re exec ua      null            rv   parseFloat  RegExp  1                       else if navigator appName     Netscape                                      in IE 11 the navigator appVersion says  trident             in Edge the navigator appVersion does not say trident        if navigator appVersion indexOf  Trident       -1  rv   12         else rv   11                    return rv

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Here is the latest correct way that I know of how to check for IE and Edge   if   MSIE 10 i test navigator userAgent           This is internet explorer 10    window alert  isIE10       if   MSIE 9 i test navigator userAgent      rv 11 0 i test navigator userAgent            This is internet explorer 9 or 11     window location    pages core ie htm      if   Edge   d  i test navigator userAgent          This is Microsoft Edge    window alert  Microsoft Edge        Note that you don t need the extra var isIE10 in your code because it does very specific checks now   Also check out this page for the latest IE and Edge user agent strings because this answer may become outdated at some point  https   msdn microsoft com en-us library hh869301 28v vs 85 29 aspx

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If you just want to give users using a MS browser a warning or something  this code should be good   HTML    lt p id  IE  gt You are not using a microsoft browser lt  p gt    Javascript   using ms browser   navigator appName     Microsoft Internet Explorer      navigator appName     Netscape   amp  amp  navigator appVersion indexOf  Edge    gt  -1      navigator appName     Netscape   amp  amp  navigator appVersion indexOf  Trident    gt  -1    if  using ms browser    true       document getElementById  IE   innerHTML    You are using a MS browser      Thanks to  GavinoGrifoni

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This function worked perfectly for me  It detects Edge as well    Originally from this Codepen   https   codepen io gapcode pen vEJNZN         detect IE    returns version of IE or false  if browser is not Internet Explorer     function detectIE       var ua   window navigator userAgent        Test values  Uncomment to check result           IE 10      ua    Mozilla 5 0  compatible  MSIE 10 0  Windows NT 6 2  Trident 6 0          IE 11      ua    Mozilla 5 0  Windows NT 6 3  Trident 7 0  rv 11 0  like Gecko         Edge 12  Spartan       ua    Mozilla 5 0  Windows NT 10 0  WOW64  AppleWebKit 537 36  KHTML  like Gecko  Chrome 39 0 2171 71 Safari 537 36 Edge 12 0         Edge 13      ua    Mozilla 5 0  Windows NT 10 0  Win64  x64  AppleWebKit 537 36  KHTML  like Gecko  Chrome 46 0 2486 0 Safari 537 36 Edge 13 10586      var msie   ua indexOf  MSIE       if  msie  gt  0           IE 10 or older   gt  return version number     return parseInt ua substring msie   5  ua indexOf      msie    10          var trident   ua indexOf  Trident       if  trident  gt  0           IE 11   gt  return version number     var rv   ua indexOf  rv         return parseInt ua substring rv   3  ua indexOf      rv    10          var edge   ua indexOf  Edge       if  edge  gt  0           Edge  IE 12     gt  return version number     return parseInt ua substring edge   5  ua indexOf      edge    10             other browser   return false      Then you can use if  detectIE         do IE stuff      in your code

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Here is a javascript class that detects IE10  IE11 and Edge  Navigator object is injected for testing purposes    var DeviceHelper   function   navigator        this navigator    navigator    navigator     DeviceHelper prototype isIE   function         if  this navigator userAgent            return false             var IE10   Boolean this navigator userAgent match   MSIE  i            IE11   Boolean this navigator userAgent match   Trident  i        return IE10    IE11      DeviceHelper prototype isEdge   function         return   this navigator userAgent  amp  amp  this navigator userAgent indexOf  Edge    gt  -1      DeviceHelper prototype isMicrosoftBrowser   function         return this isEdge      this isIE

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I m using UAParser https   github com faisalman ua-parser-js  var a   new UAParser    var name   a getResult   browser name  var version   a getResult   browser version

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First of all its not the Notepad   problem for sure  Its your  String Matching problem   The common string throughout all IE version is MSIE Check out the various userAgent strings at http   www useragentstring com pages Internet 20Explorer   if navigator userAgent indexOf  MSIE      -1      alert  I am Internet Explorer

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If we need to check Edge please go head with this  if navigator userAgent indexOf  Edge     1       do something

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For me better this   var uA   window navigator userAgent      onlyIEorEdge    msie s trident   edge   i test uA   amp  amp      document uniqueID    window MSInputMethodContext       checkVersion    onlyIEorEdge  amp  amp      edge   rv  msie s    d     i exec uA  2       NaN    Go run  http   output jsbin com solicul 1  o http   jsfiddle net Webnewbie apa1nvu8

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detect IE8 and above  and Edge if  document documentMode     Edge  test navigator userAgent             do something     Explanation   document documentMode   An IE only property  first available in IE8    Edge    A regular expression to search for the string  Edge  - which we then test against the  navigator userAgent  property  Update Mar 2020   Jam comments that the latest version of Edge now reports Edg as the user agent  So the check would be   if  document documentMode     Edge  test navigator userAgent      Edg  test navigator userAgent             do something

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Topic is a bit old  but since the scripts here detect Firefox as a False Positive  EDGE v12   here is the version I use  function isIEorEDGE      if  navigator appName     Microsoft Internet Explorer        return true     IE       else if navigator appName     quot Netscape quot                                return navigator userAgent indexOf   NET    gt  -1     Only Edge uses  NET libraries               return false     which of course can be written in a more concise way  function isIEorEDGE      return navigator appName     Microsoft Internet Explorer      navigator appName     quot Netscape quot   amp  amp  navigator userAgent indexOf   NET    gt  -1

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Use this snip   var IE    navigator userAgent indexOf  Edge    gt  -1    navigator userAgent indexOf  Trident 7 0    gt  -1    true   false

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One line code to detect the browser    If the browser is IE or Edge  It will return true   let isIE    edge msie s trident   i test window navigator userAgent

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