Challenges encountered when attempting to retrieve browser information using the window.navigator object from website visitors

I've been attempting to retrieve information about the visitors' browser on my website. Unfortunately, the return I receive for each parameter is showing as 'undefined.'

Below is the code I'm using (this is linked as an external JS file in the HTML head):

function navigatorInfo(){
    alert("YOUR COMPUTER INFO SIR: \n\nBrowser Code Name: " + navigator.appCodeName + "\nBrowser Name: " + navigator.appName +  "\nBrowser Version: " + navigator.appVersion +  "\nCookies Enabled: " + navigator.cookieEnabled + "\nPlatform: " + navigator.platform +  "\nUser-agent header: " + navigator.userAgent + "\nUser-agent language: " + navigator.systemLanguage );
}

I've called the function in the HTML body like so:

<input type="button" onclick="navigatorInfo()" value="Click Here to Retrieve Your Computer Info!"/>

The data returned appears as:

YOUR COMPUTER INFO SIR: 

Browser Code Name: undefined
Browser Name: undefined
Browser Version: undefined
Cookies Enabled: undefined
Platform: undefined
User-agent header: undefined
User-agent language: undefined

Any suggestions or thoughts?

Update: Following the suggestion, I renamed the function to navigatorInfo and received this data upon retrieval:

Browser Code Name: Mozilla Browser Name: Netscape Browser Version: 5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/536.29.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.4 Safari/536.29.13 Cookies Enabled: true Platform: MacIntel User-agent header: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/536.29.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.4 Safari/536.29.13 User-agent language: undefined.

However, despite using a Safari browser, the Browser that was returned is identified as Mozilla...

UPDATE: Got it figured out now, thanks for the assistance.... http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html

Answer №1

navigator is a built-in object present in web browsers. It is recommended to avoid using the name navigator for your function to prevent conflicts, consider renaming it to something like navigatorInfo instead.

Answer №2

Understood, I appreciate your assistance...

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