DevicePosture: change event
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 change
event of the DevicePosture
interface fires when the device's posture changes, for example when a foldable device goes from folded
to continuous
posture.
Syntax
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener()
, or set an event handler property.
js
addEventListener("change", (event) => {});
onchange = (event) => {};
Event type
A generic Event
.
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 |
---|
Device Posture API # dom-deviceposture-onchange |
Browser compatibility
Report problems with this compatibility data on GitHubdesktop | mobile | |||||||||||
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change event |
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)