The Screen interface represents a screen, usually the one on which the current window is being rendered.
Usually it is the one on which the current window is being rendered, obtained using window.screen.
Properties
Screen.availTop- Specifies the y-coordinate of the first pixel that is not allocated to permanent or semipermanent user interface features.
Screen.availLeft- Returns the first available pixel available from the left side of the screen.
Screen.availHeight- Specifies the height of the screen, in pixels, minus permanent or semipermanent user interface features displayed by the operating system, such as the Taskbar on Windows.
Screen.availWidth- Returns the amount of horizontal space in pixels available to the window.
Screen.colorDepth- Returns the color depth of the screen.
Screen.height- Returns the height of the screen in pixels.
Screen.left- Returns the distance in pixels from the left side of the main screen to the left side of the current screen.
Screen.orientation- Returns the current orientation of the screen.
Screen.pixelDepth- Gets the bit depth of the screen.
Screen.top- Returns the distance in pixels from the top side of the current screen.
Screen.width- Returns the width of the screen.
Screen.mozEnabled- Boolean. Setting to false will turn off the device's screen.
Screen.mozBrightness- Controls the brightness of a device's screen. A double between 0 and 1.0 is expected.
Events handler
Screen.onorientationchange- A handler for the
orientationchangeevents.
Methods
Screen.lockOrientation- Lock the screen orientation (only works in fullscreen or for installed apps)
Screen.unlockOrientation- Unlock the screen orientation (only works in fullscreen or for installed apps)
Methods inherit from EventTarget
EventTarget.addEventListener()- Register an event handler of a specific event type on the
EventTarget. EventTarget.removeEventListener()- Removes an event listener from the
EventTarget. EventTarget.dispatchEvent()- Dispatch an event to this
EventTarget.
Example
if (screen.pixelDepth < 8) {
// use low-color version of page
} else {
// use regular, colorful page
}
Specification
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