---
title: "Detecting Browser Capability in Java Script"  
description: "We know that java script work with client side browsers. Sometimes we want to know some information about client browser such as version number, name,"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-03-12  
updated: 2019-08-04  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/508/detecting-browser-capability-in-java-script  
category: "javascript"  
tags: ["javascript"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# Detecting Browser Capability in Java Script

We know that java script work with client side browsers. Sometimes we want to know some information about client browser such as version number, name, and support cookie functionality or not. Depends upon the browser we send different-different pages and functionalities. The Navigator object contains information about the visitor's browser name, version, and more. Following table describes some common functionality regarding browser detection.\

##### Property:

- **appCodeName** : Provides code name of browser.
- **appName** : Provides name of the browser that user use for viewing browser.
- **appVersion** : Provides description of the version of browser.
- **cookieEnabled** : Checks whether browser support whether cookie functionality enabled or not.

##### Following example demonstrate use of browser capability in java script

```
<script type="text/javascript">        function detectBrowser() {            document.write("Browser code name  : " + navigator.appCodeName + "<br />");            document.write("Browser Name  : " + navigator.appName + "<br />");            document.write("Browser Version  : " + navigator.appVersion + "<br />");            document.write("Cookie Enabled  :  " + navigator.cookieEnabled + "<br />");            document.write("Plateform  : " + navigator.platform + "<br />");            document.write("User Agent Header  : " + navigator.userAgent + "<br />");        }</script>
```

##### Output of the following code snippet is as follows

Browser code name : Mozilla\
Browser Name : Microsoft Internet Explorer\
Browser Version : 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)\
Cookie Enabled : true\
Platform : Win32\
User Agent Header : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)

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