How to get end user's Geolocation in IE ? Below is my JS code.But in Chrome and Mozilla im getting my current location.

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DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Click the button to get your coordinates.</p>

<button onclick="getLocation()">Try It</button>

<p id="demo"></p>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var x = document.getElementById("demo");
    var Latitudevar;
    var Longitudevar;
    function getLocation() {
        if (navigator.geolocation) {
            navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showPosition);
        } else {
            x.innerHTML = "Geolocation is not supported by this browser.";
        }
    }

    function showPosition(position) {

        x.innerHTML = "Latitude: " + position.coords.latitude +
    "<br>Longitude: " + position.coords.longitude;


        Latitudevar = position.coords.latitude;
        Longitudevar = position.coords.longitude;

        GetAddress();
    }

    function GetAddress() {


        var lat = Latitudevar;
        var lng = Longitudevar;
        var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lng);
        var geocoder = geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
        geocoder.geocode({ 'latLng': latlng }, function (results, status) {
            if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) {
                if (results[1]) {
                   // alert("Location: " + results[1].formatted_address);
                    x.innerHTML = "Area: " + results[1].formatted_address;
                }

            }
        });

    }
</script>

</body>
</html>

Posted 22-Jun-15 2:15am

hariprashanth11

Updated 22-Jun-15 3:41am

Richard MacCutchan

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Thanks7872 22-Jun-15 9:23am

Why you are posting all your explanation as a solution? Look at bottom of the question, there is a link "Improve question", use it.

hariprashanth11 22-Jun-15 9:25am

ok thanks buddy ... keep tracking and give me a solution.

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 22-Jun-15 10:06am

Which version of IE?

hariprashanth11 23-Jun-15 1:03am

IE all the versions.

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 26-Jun-15 11:43am

I have created this fiddle for you. See if this is working or not. It was working for me in IE.

hariprashanth11 30-Jun-15 9:11am

Still im getting the ISP details only. In chrome and mozilla im getting the correct location as bangalore, but in IE im getting as chennai. How to avoid the isp details ?? please help me with this.

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) 1-Jul-15 7:34am

May be your IE is more buggy. :P :D

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