This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The media read-only property of the MediaQueryList interface is a string representing a serialized media query.
A string representing a serialized media query.
This example runs the media query (width <= 600px) and displays the value of the resulting MediaQueryList's media property in a <span>.
let mql = window.matchMedia("(width <= 600px)");
document.querySelector(".mq-value").innerText = mql.media;
The JavaScript code passes the media query to match into matchMedia() to compile it, then sets the <span>'s innerText to the value of the result's media property.
<span class="mq-value"></span>
A <span> to receive the output.
| Specification |
|---|
| CSSOM View Module> # dom-mediaquerylist-media> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
media |
9 | 12 | 6 | 12.1 | 5.1 | 18 | 6 | 12.1 | 5 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 5 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaQueryList/media