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Tasmanian Devil
06-02-2003, 08:48 AM
is there any way when a link is clicked depending on the type of browser that it will go to a different page? thanks
Khalid Ali
06-02-2003, 08:56 AM
Yes...you'd need to do something like this.

if(document.all){

}else{//NS ???

}
Tasmanian Devil
06-02-2003, 09:08 AM
Khalid Ali~
I am a newbie so can you show me an example how it would look?
Khalid Ali
06-02-2003, 09:24 AM
I think the best you can do in this scenarios is to have links in an array
<script type="text/javascript">
var linksArr = new Array("http://netscape.net","http://w3c.org","http://microsoft.com","http://msnbc.com");

functionloadURL(index){
if(document.all){
window.location.href = linksArr[index];
}else{//ns ???
window.location.href = linksArr[index];

}
}
</script>

html part of it may look like this

<body>

<a href="#" onclick="loadURL(0)">Netscape</a><br/>

<a href="#" onclick="loadURL(2)">Microsoft</a>

I guess you get the idea...
:D
Charles
06-02-2003, 09:45 AM
Originally posted by Tasmanian Devil
is there any way when a link is clicked depending on the type of browser that it will go to a different page? thanks That's going to depend upon what you mean by "type of browser".

<a href="http://www.defaultPage.com/" onclick="this.url = {Microsoft: 'http://www.microsoftPage.com', Netscape: 'http://www.netscapeVersion.com', Opera: 'http://www.OperaVersion.com'}[navigator.appName]; if (this.url) this.href = this.url">Some Link</a>

That example will change the link address according to the name of the bowser. See http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/reference/nav.html for other possibilities. But note:

1) There are hundreds of different types of browsers out there, so you need to specify a default address in the "href" attribute.

2) A good 13% of users do not use JavaScript so you, so you need to specify a default address in the "href" attribute.
Tasmanian Devil
06-02-2003, 09:48 AM
Khalid Ali~
Thanks for your help
Tasmanian Devil
06-02-2003, 09:55 AM
Khalid Ali~
Thanks for your help
Khalid Ali
06-02-2003, 10:18 AM
You are welcome...Devil

:D