# Check if javascript is on

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/check-if-javascript-is-on/30985>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [June 23, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/check-if-javascript-is-on/30985 "2008-06-23T23:24:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Taro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Taro](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Taro)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/check-if-javascript-is-on/30985/1 "2008-06-23T23:24:26Z")

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I know this is a dumb question, but is there a way to figure out whether javascript is on a browser or not before I generate the page? This is most important with my edit controllers which has a hidden form to edit a page, and it's only made visible by a few javascript magic.

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**Author:** ![Greg\_Willits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Greg\_Willits](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Greg_Willits)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/check-if-javascript-is-on/30985/2 "2008-06-24T20:23:31Z")

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lots of ways to do this . google is your friend "detect javascript enabled"

-- gw