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. 
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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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