Window: resize event

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 resize event fires when the document view (window) has been resized.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

In some earlier browsers it was possible to register resize event handlers on any HTML element. It is still possible to set onresize attributes or use addEventListener() to set a handler on any element. However, resize events are only fired on the window object (i.e. returned by document.defaultView). Only handlers registered on the window object will receive resize events.

While the resize event fires only for the window nowadays, you can get resize notifications for other elements using the ResizeObserver API.

If the resize event is triggered too many times for your application, see Optimizing window.onresize to control the time after which the event fires.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

js
addEventListener("resize", (event) => {});

onresize = (event) => {};

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

Window size logger

The following example reports the window size each time it is resized.

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

window.onresize = reportWindowSize;

Result

Note: The example output here is in an <iframe>, so the reported width and height values are for the <iframe>, not the window that this page is in. In particular, it will be hard to adjust the window size so as to see a difference in the reported height.

The effect is easier to see if you view the example in its own window.

addEventListener equivalent

You could set up the event handler using the addEventListener() method:

js
window.addEventListener("resize", reportWindowSize);

Specifications

Specification
CSSOM View Module
# eventdef-window-resize

Browser compatibility

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