Window: innerWidth property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The read-only Window property innerWidth returns the interior width of the window in pixels (that is, the width of the window's layout viewport). That includes the width of the vertical scroll bar, if one is present.

Similarly, the interior height of the window (that is, the height of the layout viewport) can be obtained using the innerHeight property. That measurement also accounts for the height of the horizontal scroll bar, if it is visible.

Value

An integer value indicating the width of the window's layout viewport in pixels. This property is read-only, and has no default value.

To change the window's width, use one of the Window methods for resizing windows, such as resizeBy() or resizeTo().

Usage notes

If you need to obtain the width of the window minus the scrollbar and borders, use the root <html> element's clientWidth property instead.

The innerWidth property is available on any window or object that behaves like a window, such as a frame or tab.

Examples

js
// This will log the width of the viewport
console.log(window.innerWidth);

// This will log the width of the frame viewport within a frameset
console.log(self.innerWidth);

// This will log the width of the viewport of the closest frameset
console.log(parent.innerWidth);

// This will log the width of the viewport of the outermost frameset
console.log(top.innerWidth);

Demo

HTML

html
<p>Resize the browser window to fire the <code>resize</code> event.</p>
<p>Window height: <span id="height"></span></p>
<p>Window width: <span id="width"></span></p>

JavaScript

js
const heightOutput = document.querySelector("#height");
const widthOutput = document.querySelector("#width");

function updateSize() {
  heightOutput.textContent = window.innerHeight;
  widthOutput.textContent = window.innerWidth;
}

updateSize();
window.addEventListener("resize", updateSize);

Result

You can also view the results of the demo code in a separate page.

Specifications

Specification
CSSOM View Module
# dom-window-innerwidth

Browser compatibility

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See also