screen object
Contains information about the client's screen and rendering capabilities.
Standards information
- CSSOM View Module, 4.2
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Build date: 3/14/2012
- 11/29/2011
- gfox1984
The screen.width and screen.height properties return the resolution of the primary screen, no matter which screen the browser is in. This is more of an issue, when the two screens have different resolutions. Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome all seem to be returning the resolution of the screen that the browser is in.
- 5/19/2010
- inalkm
The screen object only contains data for the primary system screen. Information for any additional screens to which the desktop is extended is unavailable. For instance, if you have two screens, at 1280x1024 each positioned side-by-side, you might expect screen.availWidth to return 2560. Alas, it will return only 1280, which is the available width of the primary screen.
This makes positioning popup windows a bit of a pain if the browser isn't on the primary monitor.
- 6/10/2009
- Andy E
