Window: screen 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 Window property screen returns a reference to the screen object associated with the window. The screen object, implementing the Screen interface, is a special object for inspecting properties of the screen on which the current window is being rendered.

Value

A Screen object.

Examples

js
if (screen.pixelDepth < 8) {
  // use low-color version of page
} else {
  // use regular, colorful page
}

Specifications

Specification
CSSOM View Module
# dom-window-screen

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
screen

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