Ace Tips About How To Detect Ie8

First, open edge.

How to detect ie8. Newer versions like ie11 seem to do such a good job at behaving like ie8 when in compatibility mode that the js and css approaches of detecting ie8 can't see to tell them apart. In the address bar for microsoft edge, type edge://settings/defaultbrowser and then click enter. Hi all, i was on here looking for a jquery snippet to detect ie8.

Windows nt 6.0) ie8 on windows vista (compatibility view) mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Click default browser. in default browser settings, locate the internet explorer compatibility section. The msie version is not enough

When the settings tab opens, expand the window until you see the settings sidebar. Ie8 can show a little button next to the url box that switches the browser between ie7 mode and ie8 mode. This is what i found, see below:

I need to detect ie8 because it's the only browser who's javascript engine is so slow that it brings up a dialog that says do you want to stop running script on this page, and the default is yes. // detect ie8 and above, and edge if (document.documentmode || /edge/.test(navigator.useragent)) {. Slide the allow sites to be reloaded in internet explorer toggle to on.

Document.documentmode an ie only property, first available in ie8. Starting with internet explorer 8, the browser began reporting the layout engine as part of the user agent string, named trident. Can someone tell me how i can do this with conditional comments?

How do i detect ie 8 with jquery. See msdn for more details: Internet explorer mode is now enabled.

To turn on internet explorer mode, use the following steps. Quirksmode but this does not really show how i can detect for ie8 or ie9. I've got a function which detects the browser and replaces the page displayed:

There are lots of ways documented for detecting ie8 but they only seem to work compared to older versions. I've got a website which was built using jekyll. Otherwise it's if browser == ie8.