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Window: moveTo() method

The moveTo() method of the Window interface moves the current window to the specified coordinates.

Note: This function moves the window to an absolute location. In contrast, window.moveBy() moves the window relative to its current location.

Syntax

js

moveTo(x, y)

Parameters

  • x is the horizontal coordinate to be moved to.
  • y is the vertical coordinate to be moved to.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

This example moves the window to the top-left corner of the screen.

js

function origin() {
  window.moveTo(0, 0);
}

Specifications

Specification
CSSOM View Module
# dom-window-moveto

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
moveTo 1 12 1 4 ≤12.1 1 4.4 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0

As of Firefox 7, websites can no longer move a browser window in the following cases:

  1. You can't move a window or tab that wasn't created by Window.open().
  2. You can't move a window or tab when it's in a window with more than one tab.

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/moveTo