What is the best way to detect a mobile device?

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What is the best way to detect a mobile device?

Is there an approach to identify whether a user is utilizing a mobile phone in jQuery? Something like the CSS @media attribute? I might want to run an alternate script if the browser is on a handheld device.

The jQuery $.browser function is not what I am looking for.

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3 years ago by Kajalsi45d

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**aashaykumar** · Answer 1 · 2021-06-02T10:07:23



function isMobile() { return ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement); }

However above code doesn't take into account the case for laptops with touchscreen. Thus, I provide this second version,



function isMobile() {

  try{ document.createEvent("TouchEvent"); return true; }

  catch(e){ return false; }

}

**RoliMishra** · Answer 2 · 2021-06-03T14:11:41

A simple and effective one-liner:

function isMobile() { return ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement); }

However, above code doesn't take into account the case for laptops with touchscreen.

function isMobile() {

  try{ document.createEvent("TouchEvent"); return true; }

  catch(e){ return false; }

}

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What is the best way to detect a mobile device?

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