DevicePosture
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The DevicePosture
interface of the Device Posture API represents the device's posture, that is, whether the viewport is in a flat or folded state.
Instance properties
Inherits properties from its parent, EventTarget
.
type
Read only Experimental-
Returns the device's current posture.
Events
change
Experimental-
Fires when the device's posture changes.
Examples
js
const postureOutput = document.getElementById("currentPosture");
function reportPostureOutput() {
// type property returns "continuous" or "folded"
postureOutput.textContent = `Device posture: ${navigator.devicePosture.type}`;
}
navigator.devicePosture.addEventListener("change", reportPostureOutput);
Specifications
Specification |
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Device Posture API # dom-deviceposture |
Browser compatibility
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change event | ||||||||||||
type |
Legend
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- Full support
- Full support
- In development. Supported in a pre-release version.
- In development. Supported in a pre-release version.
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
See also
- CSS
device-posture
@media
feature - Device Posture API
- Origin trial for Foldable APIs on developer.chrome.com (2024)