Screen: orientation property

The orientation read-only property of the Screen interface returns the current orientation of the screen.

Value

An instance of ScreenOrientation representing the orientation of the screen.

Note that older, prefixed versions returned a string equivalent to type.

Examples

switch (screen.orientation.type) {
  case "landscape-primary":
    console.log("That looks good.");
    break;
  case "landscape-secondary":
    console.log("Mmm… the screen is upside down!");
    break;
  case "portrait-secondary":
  case "portrait-primary":
    console.log("Mmm… you should rotate your device to landscape");
    break;
  default:
    console.log("The orientation API isn't supported in this browser :(");
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• ScreenOrientation
• orientationchange event
• Managing screen orientation