Name
userAgent — NN 2 IE 3 DOM n/a
Synopsis
Read-only
Information about the browser software, including version, operating
system platform, and brand. This is the most complete set of
information about the browser, whereas appVersion
and appName properties provide subset data.
Typical data for this property looks like the following:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)
Do not rely on the length or position of any part of this data, as it
may vary with browser, version, and proxy server used at the client
end. Instead, use the indexOf( ) method to check
for the presence of a desired string.
Example
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE") != -1) {
var isIE = true
}Value
String.
Default
Depends on browser.
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