Hi. My games website, http://www.raparcade.com displays fine in Firefox as the stylesheet was made for it. I have a stylesheet for Internet Explorer but how do I detect the users browser and load the relevant stylesheet?

Thanks

I know that this is in the Javascript section, but PHP will do this for you... I found a script that you can modify to your needs...

<?php
if ( strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Gecko') )
{
  if ( strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Netscape') )
  {
$browser = 'Netscape (Gecko/Netscape)';
  }
  else if ( strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Firefox') )
  {
$browser = 'Mozilla Firefox (Gecko/Firefox)';
  }
  else
  {
$browser = 'Mozilla (Gecko/Mozilla)';
  }
}
else if ( strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') )
{
  if ( strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Opera') )
  {
$browser = 'Opera (MSIE/Opera/Compatible)';
  }
  else
  {
$browser = 'Internet Explorer (MSIE/Compatible)';
  }
}
else
{
$browser = 'Others browsers';
}
 
echo $browser;
?>

Just set the style sheet based upon the browser that is detected

Of course, this assumes the web host is capable of reading PHP.

The easy solution is to use conditional comments.
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
call your style sheet here
<![endif]-->Now FireFox will see that as a comment, and ignore it. No server side coding needed.

Learn something new everyday.... good solutions Newbie

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Thanks guys!

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Of course, this assumes the web host is capable of reading PHP.

The easy solution is to use conditional comments.
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
call your style sheet here
<![endif]-->Now FireFox will see that as a comment, and ignore it. No server side coding needed.

This is what we've used for http://www.greenlush.com

There's another advantage to this method than it works on Linux or Windows hosting. It's unmistakably not "cloaking," whereas the other method could be called that. It's not, neither is, but sniffing out the browser on the server side and then sending down an appropriate style sheet is the same technology people use to send one version of their site to humans and a different version to search bots. In Google Webmaster Tools, there's a spot to report another site for cloaking ( and other bad practices ), which is just begging to be abused. Competitor out ranks you, report them for something. Call me paranoid, but the conditional comments seem like insurance against some jerk doing this to you, and some brand-new employee at Google making the wrong call.