The orientation
read-only property of the Screen
interface returns the current orientation of the screen.
The orientation
read-only property of the Screen
interface returns the current orientation of the screen.
An instance of ScreenOrientation
representing the orientation of the screen.
Note that older, prefixed versions returned a string equivalent to ScreenOrientation.type
.
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 :("); }
Specification |
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Screen Orientation # dom-screen-orientation |
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
orientation |
38 | 7912Edge does not return anOrientation 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 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen/orientation