How to detect the user’s device using jQuery ?
The task is to determine the user’s device, whether it is iPad or not, using JQuery. Below are the required methods:
- Navigator userAgent Property:
This property returns the value of the header of user-agent which is sent by the browser to the server.
Returned value, have information like name, version, and platform of the browser.Syntax:
navigator.userAgent
Return value:
It returns a string, which represents the user agent string of the current browser.
Example: This example uses the navigator.userAgent property to identify the user’s device.
<!DOCTYPE HTML><html> <head> <title> JQuery | Detect iPad users. </title></head><script src=</script> <body style="text-align:center;" id="body"> <h1 style="color:green;"> GeeksForGeeks </h1> <p id="GFG_UP" style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold;"> </p> <button> click here </button> <p id="GFG_DOWN" style="color: green; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;"> </p> <script> $('#GFG_UP').text( "Click on the button to see "+ "whether user's device is iPad or not"); $('button').on('click', function() { var is_iPad = navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i) != null; $('#GFG_DOWN').text(is_iPad); }); </script></body> </html> |
Output:
- Before reaching the bottom:
- After reaching the bottom:
