How to detect IE7 and IE8 using jQuery.support

Question

How can I detect IE 7 and IE 8 using jQuery.support properties?

Is it possible to detect the browser versions using jQuery.support or just those blah blah blah browser features?

Answer 1

This is totally possible with support:

if (!$.support.leadingWhitespace) {     //IE7 and 8 stuff } 

This also detects IE 6 however, if you don't want IE 6 to run this code block, you will need another flag to exclude it

A good reason for not using browser is it is a deprecated feature, and it will likely be removed to a plugin with version 1.9. (See the comments on the answer to How to detect IE7 with jQuery?)

"We recommend against using this property; please try to use feature detection instead (see jQuery.support). jQuery.browser may be moved to a plugin in a future release of jQuery" http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/

here is a working example: http://jsfiddle.net/AGtG8/16/

Answer 2

if (jQuery.support.leadingWhitespace == false){  ... code for IE7-IE8 ...  } else { ...  }