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What is the best way to detect a mobile device in JavaScript?

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What is the best way to detect a mobile device in JavaScript? (Sample code would be helpful).

posted May 29, 2017 by Salil Agrawal

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you can use simple javascript to detect it:

if( /Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Opera Mini/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ) {
 // some code..
}
commented May 29, 2017 by Manikandan J

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Thanks Mani,

I wanted certain action to be visible to the desktop or bigger screen so used the following code 

if(window.innerWidth > 800 || window.innerHeight > 600) {   // Its a case of desktop 
// Desktop code 
}
else {
// Mobile code 
}
answer May 30, 2017 by Salil Agrawal
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