jQuery - IE ONLY css

Question

Is it possible to use

var script = document.createElement('link');
script.href = 'theme/style/ie/manageleads.css';
script.rel  = 'stylesheet';
script.type = 'text/css';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);

and for it to only be active if the browser is IE8?

Joe · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-12 02:42:59Z

7

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/

Note that IE8 claims to be 7 in Compatibility View.

if ($.browser == 'msie' && (parseInt($.browser.version) == 8 || parseInt($.browser.version) == 7))
{
    // Do something IE8-only in here
}

answered Sep 12, 2011 at 2:42

Joe

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Alex Zak Over a year ago

"$.browser == 'msie'" did not work for me. instead I used "$.browser.msie" - worked like a charm. :)

Joe Over a year ago

@AlexZak Yes, jQuery changed the toString() of $.browser as it used to return the "name" of the browser. It's also worth nothing that as of jQuery 1.9, $.browser is removed, and no longer works - see the original link in my answer to jQuery.browser for more details

loganfsmyth · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-12 03:10:47Z

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The best way would be conditional CSS, but since you asked for jQuery, here ya go.

if ($.browser.msie && parseInt($.browser.version) == 8) {
  $('<link />', {
    href: 'theme/style/ie/manageleads.css',
    rel: 'stylesheet',
    type: 'text/css'
  }).appendTo('head');
}

If that doesn't work, let me know. You might need to use 'document.createStylesheet' instead.

edited Sep 12, 2011 at 3:10

answered Sep 12, 2011 at 2:45

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Joe Over a year ago

$.browser.version is likely to return something like 8.2256.4382, so you need to use (ideally) parseInt to just get the major version number back out of it.

loganfsmyth Over a year ago

Good call, I didn't notice that.

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