The orientation
read-only property of the Screen
interface returns the current orientation of the screen.
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Screen: orientation property
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
Specification |
---|
Screen Orientation # dom-screen-orientation |
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 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 |
See also
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen/orientation