Detect Flash using jQuery

In one of my project, I needs to detect flash driver. I searched lot but not found small and staright forward script. Finally, I found jqPlugin from jquery plugin directory.It is very helpful to check various AddOns of browsers. Here is the list of other browser plugin which we can test using this plugin.

• Flash
• Silverlight
• PDF(checks if pdf mimetype is supported not limited to one PDF application)
• Java
• Quicktime
• Windows Media Player
• Shockwave
• Realplayer

In below script, you will get code to detect flash player.

 <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>  
 <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.jqplugin.1.0.2.min.js"></script>  
 <script type="text/javascript">  
 $(document).ready(function() {  
 $("#withflash").hide();  
 $("#noflash").hide();  
 if ($.browser.flash == true)  
   $("#withflash").show ();  
 else  
   $("#noflash").show ();  
  });  
 </script>  
 <div id="withflash">Flash Supported</div>  
 <div id="noflash">Flash Not Supported</div>  

Example

Flash Supported

Flash Not Supported