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Window.fullScreen

Non-standard: This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future.

The fullScreen property of the Window interface indicates whether the window is displayed in full screen mode or not.

With chrome privileges, the property is read-write, otherwise it is read-only. Bear in mind that if you try to set this property without chrome privileges, it will not throw an exception and instead just silently fail. This is to prevent scripts designed to set this property in Internet Explorer from breaking.

Value

A boolean value with true meaning that the window is in full-screen mode and false meaning it isn't.

Notes

  • Switching between regular window and full screen will fire the "resize" event on the corresponding window.

Examples

if (window.fullScreen) {
  // it's fullscreen!
}
else {
  // not fullscreen!
}

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

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Last Updated 2022-04-27T09:33:08Z