orientationchange

The orientationchange event is fired when the orientation of the device has changed.

General info

Specification

Compatibility Living Standard

Interface

Event

Bubbles

No

Cancelable

No

Target

Screen

Default Action

None

Properties

Property	Type	Description
target Read only	EventTarget	The event target (the topmost target in the DOM tree).
type Read only	DOMString	The type of event.
bubbles Read only	Boolean	Whether the event normally bubbles or not
cancelable Read only	Boolean	Whether the event is cancellable or not?

Example

// Note that "orientationchange" and screen.orientation are unprefixed in the following
// code although this API is still vendor-prefixed browsers implementing it.
window.addEventListener("orientationchange", function() {
    alert("the orientation of the device is now " + screen.orientation.angle);
});