microsoft-edge

What is the User Agent string name for Microsoft Edge?

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Microsoft Edge UA string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10136 I detail why in this blog post. Neowin recently reported that Microsoft’s new browser for Windows 10, Spartan, uses the Chrome UA string, “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0″. That is done on purpose. … Read more

includes() not working in all browsers

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If you look at the documentation of includes(), most of the browsers don’t support this property. You can use widely supported indexOf() after converting the property to string using toString(): if ($(“.right-tree”).css(“background-image”).indexOf(“stage1”) > -1) { // ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You can also use the polyfill from MDN. if (!String.prototype.includes) { String.prototype.includes = function() { ‘use strict’; return … Read more

Why does Microsoft Edge open some local websites, but not others, where the domain name is routed to 127.0.0.1 in hosts file

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Your network can block loopback as a security measure in Windows 10. Open a command prompt as administrator, and run this to exempt Edge from a loopback: CheckNetIsolation LoopbackExempt -a -n=”Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe” (Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe is the identifier for the Edge app) There’s a blog post here giving more detail: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/msgulfcommunity/2015/07/01/how-to-debug-localhost-on-microsoft-edge/

How can I detect Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Edge using JavaScript?

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Here is the latest correct way that I know of how to check for IE and Edge: if (/MSIE 10/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) { // This is internet explorer 10 window.alert(‘isIE10’); } if (/MSIE 9/i.test(navigator.userAgent) || /rv:11.0/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) { // This is internet explorer 9 or 11 window.location = ‘pages/core/ie.htm’; } if (/Edge\/\d./i.test(navigator.userAgent)){ // This is Microsoft Edge window.alert(‘Microsoft … Read more

How to target Microsoft Edge with CSS? [duplicate]

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To target Edge (version < 79), we can check for -ms-ime-align support, Edge being the only Microsoft browser that supports this property: @supports (-ms-ime-align: auto) { .selector { color: red; } } Or this one-liner (that one works on Edge and all IEs also): _:-ms-lang(x), .selector { color: red; } Further explanation, including variants to … Read more