Window.navigator
The Window.navigator
read-only property returns a reference to the Navigator
object, which has methods and properties about the application running the script.
Syntax
navigatorObject = window.navigator
Examples
Example #1: Browser detect and return a string
var sBrowser, sUsrAg = navigator.userAgent; // The order matters here, and this may report false positives for unlisted browsers. if (sUsrAg.indexOf("Firefox") > -1) { sBrowser = "Mozilla Firefox"; // "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0" } else if (sUsrAg.indexOf("SamsungBrowser") > -1) { sBrowser = "Samsung Internet"; // "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; SAMSUNG SM-G955F Build/PPR1.180610.011) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/9.4 Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Mobile Safari/537.36 } else if (sUsrAg.indexOf("Opera") > -1 || sUsrAg.indexOf("OPR") > -1) { sBrowser = "Opera"; // "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 OPR/57.0.3098.106" } else if (sUsrAg.indexOf("Trident") > -1) { sBrowser = "Microsoft Internet Explorer"; // "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; Zoom 3.6.0; wbx 1.0.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" } else if (sUsrAg.indexOf("Edge") > -1) { sBrowser = "Microsoft Edge (Legacy)"; // "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36 Edge/16.16299" } else if (sUsrAg.indexOf("Edg") > -1) { sBrowser = "Microsoft Edge (Chromium)"; // Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36 Edg/91.0.864.64 } else if (sUsrAg.indexOf("Chrome") > -1) { sBrowser = "Google Chrome or Chromium"; // "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/66.0.3359.181 Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36" } else if (sUsrAg.indexOf("Safari") > -1) { sBrowser = "Apple Safari"; // "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 980x1306" } else { sBrowser = "unknown"; } alert("You are using: " + sBrowser);
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard (HTML) # dom-navigator |
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
navigator |
1
1
|
12
12
|
1
91
|
4
≤6
|
3
15
|
1
1
|
1
1
|
18
18
|
4
91
|
10.1
14
|
1
1
|
1.0
1.0
|
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