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Screen: orientation property

The orientation read-only property of the Screen interface returns the current orientation of the screen.

Value

An instance of ScreenOrientation representing the orientation of the screen.

Note that older, prefixed versions returned a string equivalent to ScreenOrientation.type.

Examples

js

switch (screen.orientation.type) {
  case "landscape-primary":
    console.log("That looks good.");
    break;
  case "landscape-secondary":
    console.log("Mmmh… the screen is upside down!");
    break;
  case "portrait-secondary":
  case "portrait-primary":
    console.log("Mmmh… you should rotate your device to landscape");
    break;
  default:
    console.log("The orientation API isn't supported in this browser :(");
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
orientation 38 79
12Edge does not return an Orientation object; instead, it returns the orientation type as a string.
4314
11Not supported on Windows 7.
25 16.4 39 39 4314 26 16.4 4.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen/orientation