Screen: orientation property

Baseline 2023
Newly available

Since March 2023, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions. This feature might not work in older devices or browsers.

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 ScreenOrientation.type.

Examples

js
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

Specification
Screen Orientation
# dom-screen-orientation

Browser compatibility

See also