Is there a way that works for all browsers?
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screen-resolution
if you mean browser resolution then
window.innerWidth gives you the browser resolution
you can test with http://howbigismybrowser.com/ try changing your screen resolution by zoom in / out browser and check resolution size with http://howbigismybrowser.com/ Window.innerWidth should be same as screen resolution width
function getScreenWidth()
{
var de = document.body.parentNode;
var db = document.body;
if(window.opera)return db.clientWidth;
if (document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') return de.clientWidth;
else return db.clientWidth;
}
If you want to detect screen resolution, you might want to checkout the plugin res. It allows you to do the following:
var res = require('res')
res.dppx() // 1
res.dpi() // 96
res.dpcm() // 37.79527559055118
Here are some great resolution takeaways from Ryan Van Etten, the plugin's author:
Here's the source code for res, as of today:
!function(root, name, make) {
if (typeof module != 'undefined' && module.exports) module.exports = make()
else root[name] = make()
}(this, 'res', function() {
var one = {dpi: 96, dpcm: 96 / 2.54}
function ie() {
return Math.sqrt(screen.deviceXDPI * screen.deviceYDPI) / one.dpi
}
function dppx() {
// devicePixelRatio: Webkit (Chrome/Android/Safari), Opera (Presto 2.8+), FF 18+
return typeof window == 'undefined' ? 0 : +window.devicePixelRatio || ie() || 0
}
function dpcm() {
return dppx() * one.dpcm
}
function dpi() {
return dppx() * one.dpi
}
return {'dppx': dppx, 'dpi': dpi, 'dpcm': dpcm}
});
Using jQuery you can do:
$(window).width()
$(window).height()
You can also get the WINDOW width and height, avoiding browser toolbars and... (not just screen size).
To do this, use:
window.innerWidth
and window.innerHeight
properties. See it at w3schools.
In most cases it will be the best way, in example, to display a perfectly centred floating modal dialog. It allows you to calculate positions on window, no matter which resolution orientation or window size is using the browser.
Do you mean display resolution (eg 72 dots per inch) or pixel dimensions (browser window is currently 1000 x 800 pixels)?
Screen resolution enables you to know how thick a 10 pixel line will be in inches. Pixel dimensions tell you what percentage of the available screen height will be taken up by a 10 pixel wide horizontal line.
There's no way to know the display resolution just from Javascript since the computer itself usually doesn't know the actual dimensions of the screen, just the number of pixels. 72 dpi is the usual guess....
Note that there's a lot of confusion about display resolution, often people use the term instead of pixel resolution, but the two are quite different. See Wikipedia
Of course, you can also measure resolution in dots per cm. There is also the obscure subject of non-square dots. But I digress.
In vanilla JavaScript, this will give you the AVAILABLE width/height:
window.screen.availHeight
window.screen.availWidth
For the absolute width/height, use:
window.screen.height
window.screen.width
Both of the above can be written without the window prefix.
Like jQuery? This works in all browsers, but each browser gives different values.
$(window).width()
$(window).height()
var width = screen.width;
var height = screen.height;
just for future reference:
function getscreenresolution()
{
window.alert("Your screen resolution is: " + screen.height + 'x' + screen.width);
}
Trying to get this on a mobile device requires a few more steps. screen.availWidth
stays the same regardless of the orientation of the device.
Here is my solution for mobile:
function getOrientation(){
return Math.abs(window.orientation) - 90 == 0 ? "landscape" : "portrait";
};
function getMobileWidth(){
return getOrientation() == "landscape" ? screen.availHeight : screen.availWidth;
};
function getMobileHeight(){
return getOrientation() == "landscape" ? screen.availWidth : screen.availHeight;
};
Source: Stackoverflow.com