[![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/jquery.browser.png)](https://nodei.co/npm/jquery.browser/)

A jQuery plugin for browser detection. jQuery removed support for browser detection on 1.9.1 so it was abstracted into a jQuery plugin

## Installation

Include script *after* the jQuery library:

    <script src="/path/to/jquery.browser.js"></script>

## Usage

Returns true if the current useragent is some version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Supports all IE versions including IE 12.

    $.browser.msie;

Returns true if the current useragent is some version of a WebKit browser (Safari, Chrome and Opera 15+)

    $.browser.webkit;

Returns true if the current useragent is some version of Firefox

    $.browser.mozilla;

Reading the browser verion
    
    $.browser.version

## Things not included in the original jQuery $.browser implementation

- Detect specifically Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Kindle, BlackBerry, Chrome OS, and Windows Phone useragents

```javascript
	$.browser.android
	$.browser.blackberry
	$.browser.cros
	$.browser.ipad
	$.browser.iphone
	$.browser.ipod
	$.browser.kindle
	$.browser.linux
	$.browser.mac
	$.browser.playbook
	$.browser.silk
	$.browser.win
	$.browser["windows phone"]
```

Alternatively, you can detect for generic classifications such as desktop or mobile

```javascript
	$.browser.desktop
	$.browser.mobile
```

```javascript
	// User Agent for Firefox on Windows
	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0
	
	$.browser.desktop // Returns true as a boolean
```

```javascript
	// User Agent for Safari on iPhone
	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0(iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11B508 Safari/9537.53
	
	$.browser.mobile // Returns true as a boolean
```

- Detect the browser's major version

```javascript
	// User Agent for Chrome
	// Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1664.3 Safari/537.36
	
	$.browser.versionNumber // Returns 32 as a number
```

- Support for new useragent on IE 11 and IE 12
- Support for WebKit based Opera browsers
- Added testing using PhantomJS and different browser user agents

## Testing

Testing for this plugin is done with [Casperjs v1.1](http://casperjs.org/) to take advantage of multiple phantomjs browsers with different user agents.

For instructions on how to install [Casperjs v1.1](http://casperjs.org/) go to http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/installation.html

**Note: Testing requires Casperjs v1.1**

Install the grunt-cli dependency by running `npm install -g grunt-cli`
Run `npm install` to install all dependencies including grunt and all tasks

Once Casperjs and the grunt-cli npm package is installed you can execute all the tests by using:

	grunt test

## Development

- Source hosted at [GitHub](https://github.com/gabceb/jquery-browser-plugin)
- Report issues, questions, feature requests on [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/gabceb/jquery-browser-plugin/issues) 

## Attributions

- [Examples and original implementation](http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/)
- [Original Gist used for the plugin](https://gist.github.com/adeelejaz/4714079)
