Testing your browser's capabilities

HTML

Version number

Your browser supports HTML 4.

Strict or Transitional

If this paragraph is lined up with the left margin, your browser supports HTML Strict. If this paragraph is centrally aligned, your browser supports HTML Transitional.

Images and Image maps

- if nothing happens, then your browser does not support image maps.

Forms

Inline content

Iframes

Objects

Ilayers

Your browser has no support for ilayers. This can cause problems with some uses of JavaScript but if your browser supports any version of DHTML, you should have no problems.
Ilayers are not official and were introduced by Netscape for their Netscape 4 browser but were then rejected and were not supported in Netscape 6.

Framesets and frames

Click here to run the tests.

CSS handling - version number

The CSS tests require CSS to be enabled in your browser's preferences. If your browser does support CSS but you do not enable it, the DHTML tests may also give incorrect results. Most DHTML requires CSS2.

Your browser does not support CSS or supports only part of CSS 1.

Your browser does not support CSS or supports only part of CSS 2.

JavaScript handling

Version number

DHTML

These tests will require CSS2

5^th generation test

Click here to test if your browser is 5^th generation

Visibility

Click here to test the positionedElement.visibility syntax
Click here to test the positionedElement.style.visibility syntax

Left and Top Position

Click here to test the positionedElement.left/top syntax
Click here to test the positionedElement.style.left/top syntax
Click here to reset

Element background colour

Element content

Click here to try re-writing the contents of the element using innerHTML
Click here to try re-writing the contents of the element using the sparate contents syntax

Element z-index

Click here to try changing z-index using positionedElement.zIndex
Click here to try changing z-index using positionedElement.style.zIndex
Click here to reset

Element clip

Click here to try changing clipping using positionedElement.clip (the clip object)
Click here to try changing clipping using positionedElement.style.clip

Element size

(ICEbrowser will not show any change in size until the browser window is resized - other browsers may be the same)

Element display

Click here to try changing display (if nothing happens, your browser does not allow display to be changed)

Your browser allows the display style to be changed (assuming it also supports CSS1).

Document background colour

This document is not being rendered in (MS) 'standards compliant mode'. These results may be different if the document is being rendered in (MS) 'standards compliant mode'. Click here to check.

Click here to try changing background colour using document.bgColor
Click here to try changing background colour using document.body.style.backgroundColor
Click here to try changing background colour using document.documentElement.style.backgroundColor
Click here to reset

Link position

Click here to test if your browser allows you to find the position of a link

Screen and browser size and scrolling measurements

Click here to run the screen size test

This document is not being rendered in (MS) 'standards compliant mode'. The results of the next two tests may be different if the document is being rendered in (MS) 'standards compliant mode'. Click here to check.

Click here to run the browser window size test

Click here to run the document scrolling test

Events

Mouse event tests

Click here to run the event test

Key event tests

Click here to start / stop keyup detection then press any letter key to test this script.

Speed tests

Click here to run the tests (these may take from a few seconds to half a minute - click once then wait for the results)

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