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Window: moveTo() method

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The moveTo() method of the Window interface moves the current window to the specified coordinates.

[!NOTE] This function moves the window to an absolute location. In contrast, moveBy() moves the window relative to its current location.

Syntax

moveTo(x, y)

Parameters

  • x
    • : The horizontal coordinate to be moved to.
  • y
    • : The vertical coordinate to be moved to.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

This example moves the window to the top-left corner of the screen.

function origin() {
  window.moveTo(0, 0);
}

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

As of Firefox 7, websites can no longer move a browser window in the following cases:

  1. You can’t move a window or tab that wasn’t created by open().
  2. You can’t move a window or tab when it’s in a window with more than one tab.

[!NOTE] This function might not move the window synchronously. In some environments (like Wayland, or mobile) it might not move the window at all. Currently there’s no way to listen to a move event, see CSS Working Group issue #7693.

See also