Since March 2023, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions. This feature might not work in older devices or browsers.
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.
switch (screen.orientation.type) {
case "landscape-primary":
console.log("That looks good.");
break;
case "landscape-secondary":
console.log("Mmm… the screen is upside down!");
break;
case "portrait-secondary":
case "portrait-primary":
console.log("Mmm… you should rotate your device to landscape");
break;
default:
console.log("The orientation API isn't supported in this browser :(");
}
| Specification |
|---|
| Screen Orientation> # dom-screen-orientation> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
orientation |
38 | 7912Edge does not return anOrientation object; instead, it returns the orientation type as a string. |
4314 | 25 | 16.4 | 39 | 4314 | 26 | 16.4 | 4.0 | 39 | 16.4 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen/orientation