Mega Code Archive
Detecting Navigator and Internet Explorer
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/*
JavaScript Unleashed, Third Edition
by Richard Wagner and R. Allen Wyke
ISBN: 067231763X
Publisher Sams CopyRight 2000
*/
<html>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
//Create a layer tag if netscape
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1)
document.write('<layer id="redBox" ');
//Create a div tag if Microsoft
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1)
document.write("<div id='redBox' ");
//Set the style used for the red box
document.write('style="position:absolute; ');
document.write('left:150px; ');
document.write('top:150px; ');
document.write('background-color:red;">');
//-->
</script>
This is a block of moving buttons
<form>
<input type="button"
value="UP"
onClick="moveUp()">
<input type="button"
value="DOWN"
onCLick="moveDown()">
<input type="button"
value="LEFT"
onClick="moveLeft()">
<input type="button"
value="RIGHT"
onClick="moveRight()"><BR>
<input type="button"
value="SHOW/HIDE Text Box"
onClick="showHide()">
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
//If Netscape close the layer tag
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1)
document.write("</layer>");
//If Microsoft close div tag
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1)
document.write("</div>");
//-->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
//If Netscape create a text layer using layer tag
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1)
{
document.write('<layer id="textBox" >');
document.write("Here is some text defined as a block");
document.write("</layer>");
}
//If Microsoft create a text block using div tag
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1)
{
document.write("</div>");
document.write("<div id='textBox'>");
document.write("Here is some text defined as a block");
document.write("</div>");
}
//-->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
var isNetscape = 0;
var isMicrosoft = 0;
//Determine if this is a Netscape or Microsoft browser
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1)
isNetscape = 1;
if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1)
isMicrosoft = 1;
//Move the red box up 20 pixels
function moveUp()
{
if(isNetscape)
document.layers.redBox.pageY+=(-20);
if(isMicrosoft)
document.all.redBox.style.pixelTop+=(-20);
}
//Move the red box down 20 pixels
function moveDown()
{
if(isNetscape)
document.layers.redBox.pageY+=20;
if(isMicrosoft)
document.all.redBox.style.pixelTop+=20;
}
//Move the red box to the left 20 pixels
function moveLeft()
{
if(isNetscape)
document.layers.redBox.pageX+=(-20);
if(isMicrosoft)
document.all.redBox.style.pixelLeft+=(-20);
}
//Move the red box to the right 20 pixels.
function moveRight()
{
if(isNetscape)
document.layers.redBox.pageX+=20;
if(isMicrosoft)
document.all.redBox.style.pixelLeft+=20;
}
//Hide or show the text box
function showHide()
{
if(isNetscape)
{
//If text box is currently hidden then make it visible
if(document.layers.textBox.visibility == "hide")
document.layers.textBox.visibility="inherit";
else
document.layers.textBox.visibility="hide";
}
if(isMicrosoft)
{
//If text box is currently hidden then make it visible
if(document.all.textBox.style.visibility == "hidden")
document.all.textBox.style.visibility="visible";
else
document.all.textBox.style.visibility="hidden";
}
}
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
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