How to test for nth-child using Modernizr?

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Javier Villanueva picture Javier Villanueva · Oct 3, 2011 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I'm trying to use modernizr to test for :nth-child browser support but I'm not sure how to do it, I found this one http://jsfiddle.net/laustdeleuran/3rEVe/ which tests for :last-child but I don't know how to change it to detect :nth-child (I was also thinking about using it like that since I believe that browsers that don't support :last-child don't support :nth-child either but I'm not sure)

Can you guys help me? Thanks in advance!

Answer

Mohsen picture Mohsen · Oct 3, 2011

I just wrote a function to detect the :nth-child support for you

function isNthChildSupported(){
var result = false,
    test =  document.createElement('ul'),
    style = document.createElement('style');
test.setAttribute('id', 'nth-child-test');
style.setAttribute('type', 'text/css');
style.setAttribute('rel', 'stylesheet');
style.setAttribute('id', 'nth-child-test-style');
style.innerHTML = "#nth-child-test li:nth-child(even){height:10px;}";
for(var i=0; i<3; i++){
    test.appendChild(document.createElement('li'));   
}
document.body.appendChild(test);
document.head.appendChild(style);
  if(document.getElementById('nth-child-test').getElementsByTagName('li')[1].offsetHeight == 10) {result = true;}
document.body.removeChild(document.getElementById('nth-child-test'));
document.head.removeChild(document.getElementById('nth-child-test-style'));
  return result;
}

Usage:

isNthChildSupported() ? console.log('yes nth child is supported') : console.log('no nth child is NOT supported');

You can see this works in action here http://jsbin.com/epuxus/15

Also There is a difference between jQuery :nth-child and CSS :nth-child.

jQuery :nth-child is supported in any browser jQuery supports but CSS :nth-child is supported in IE9, Chrome, Safari and Firefox

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