Class BrowserInfo

Field Detail

• ENGINE_GECKO

  public static final String ENGINE_GECKO

  See Also:

  Constant Field Values

• ENGINE_WEBKIT

  public static final String ENGINE_WEBKIT

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  Constant Field Values

• ENGINE_PRESTO

  public static final String ENGINE_PRESTO

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  Constant Field Values

• ENGINE_TRIDENT

  public static final String ENGINE_TRIDENT

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  Constant Field Values

Method Detail

• get

  public static BrowserInfo get()

  Singleton method to get BrowserInfo object.

  Returns:

  instance of BrowserInfo object

• getCSSClass

  public String getCSSClass()

  Returns a string representing the browser in use, for use in CSS classnames. The classnames will be space separated abbreviations, optionally with a version appended. Abbreviations: Firefox: ff Internet Explorer: ie Safari: sa Opera: op Browsers that CSS-wise behave like each other will get the same abbreviation (this usually depends on the rendering engine). This is quite simple at the moment, more heuristics will be added when needed. Examples: Internet Explorer 6: ".v-ie .v-ie6 .v-ie60", Firefox 3.0.4: ".v-ff .v-ff3 .v-ff30", Opera 9.60: ".v-op .v-op9 .v-op960", Opera 10.10: ".v-op .v-op10 .v-op1010"

  Returns:

• isIE

  public boolean isIE()

• isEdge

  public boolean isEdge()

• isFirefox

  public boolean isFirefox()

• isSafari

  public boolean isSafari()

• isSafariOrIOS

  public boolean isSafariOrIOS()

  Returns true if the browser is Safari or is a browser that is running on iOS and using the Safari rendering engine.

  Returns:

  true if the browser is using the Safari rendering engine

  Since:

  8.1

• isIE8

  @Deprecated
  public boolean isIE8()

  Deprecated.

• isIE9

  @Deprecated
  public boolean isIE9()

  Deprecated.

• isIE10

  @Deprecated
  public boolean isIE10()

  Deprecated.

• isIE11

  public boolean isIE11()

• isChrome

  public boolean isChrome()

• isGecko

  public boolean isGecko()

• isWebkit

  public boolean isWebkit()

• getGeckoVersion

  public float getGeckoVersion()

  Returns the Gecko version if the browser is Gecko based. The Gecko version for Firefox 2 is 1.8 and 1.9 for Firefox 3.

  Returns:

  The Gecko version or -1 if the browser is not Gecko based

• getWebkitVersion

  public float getWebkitVersion()

  Returns the WebKit version if the browser is WebKit based. The WebKit version returned is the major version e.g., 523.

  Returns:

  The WebKit version or -1 if the browser is not WebKit based

• getIEVersion

  public float getIEVersion()

• getOperaVersion

  public float getOperaVersion()

• isOpera

  public boolean isOpera()

• isOpera10

  public boolean isOpera10()

• isOpera11

  public boolean isOpera11()

• getBrowserString

  public static String getBrowserString()

• getScreenWidth

  public int getScreenWidth()

• getScreenHeight

  public int getScreenHeight()

• isTouchDevice

  public boolean isTouchDevice()

  Returns:

  true if the browser runs on a touch based device.

• requiresOverflowAutoFix

  public boolean requiresOverflowAutoFix()

  Indicates whether the browser might require juggling to properly update sizes inside elements with overflow: auto.

  Returns:

  true if the browser requires the workaround, otherwise false

• requiresPositionAbsoluteOverflowAutoFix

  public boolean requiresPositionAbsoluteOverflowAutoFix()

  Indicates whether the browser might require juggling to properly update sizes inside elements with overflow: auto when adjusting absolutely positioned elements.

  See https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123958 and http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=316549

  Returns:

  true if the browser requires the workaround, otherwise false

  Since:

  7.1.8

• isIOS

  public boolean isIOS()

  Checks if the browser is run on iOS.

  Returns:

  true if the browser is run on iOS, false otherwise

• isIOS6

  public boolean isIOS6()

  Checks if the browser is run on iOS 6.

  Returns:

  true if the browser is run on iOS 6, false otherwise

  Since:

  7.1.1

• isAndroid

  public boolean isAndroid()

  Checks if the browser is run on Android.

  Returns:

  true if the browser is run on Android, false otherwise

• requiresTouchScrollDelegate

  public boolean requiresTouchScrollDelegate()

  Checks if the browser is capable of handling scrolling natively or if a touch scroll helper is needed for scrolling.

  Returns:

  true if browser needs a touch scroll helper, false if the browser can handle scrolling natively

• isAndroidWithBrokenScrollTop

  public boolean isAndroidWithBrokenScrollTop()

  Tests if this is an Android devices with a broken scrollTop implementation.

  Returns:

  true if scrollTop cannot be trusted on this device, false otherwise

• isAndroid23

  public boolean isAndroid23()

• getBrowserMajorVersion

  public int getBrowserMajorVersion()

  Returns the browser major version e.g., 3 for Firefox 3.5, 4 for Chrome 4, 8 for Internet Explorer 8.

  Note that Internet Explorer 8 and newer will return the document mode so IE8 rendering as IE7 will return 7.

  Returns:

  The major version of the browser.

• getBrowserMinorVersion

  public int getBrowserMinorVersion()

  Returns the browser minor version e.g., 5 for Firefox 3.5.

  Returns:

  The minor version of the browser, or -1 if not known/parsed.

  See Also:

  getBrowserMajorVersion()

• getBrowserVersion

  public String getBrowserVersion()

  Gets the complete browser version in form of a string. The version is given by the browser through the user agent string and usually consists of dot-separated numbers. Note that the string may contain characters other than dots and digits.

  Returns:

  the complete browser version or null if unknown

  Since:

  8.4

• isBrowserVersionNewerOrEqual

  public boolean isBrowserVersionNewerOrEqual​(int majorVersion,
                                              int minorVersion)

  Checks if the browser version is newer or equal to the given major+minor version.

  Parameters:

  majorVersion - The major version to check for

  minorVersion - The minor version to check for

  Returns:

  true if the browser version is newer or equal to the given version