Window: deviceorientation event
The deviceorientation
event is fired when fresh data is available from an orientation sensor about the current orientation of the device as compared to the Earth coordinate frame. This data is gathered from a magnetometer inside the device.
See Orientation and motion data explained for details.
Bubbles | No |
---|---|
Cancelable | No |
Interface | DeviceOrientationEvent |
Event handler property | window.ondeviceorientation |
Examples
if (window.DeviceOrientationEvent) { window.addEventListener("deviceorientation", function(event) { // alpha: rotation around z-axis var rotateDegrees = event.alpha; // gamma: left to right var leftToRight = event.gamma; // beta: front back motion var frontToBack = event.beta; handleOrientationEvent(frontToBack, leftToRight, rotateDegrees); }, true); } var handleOrientationEvent = function(frontToBack, leftToRight, rotateDegrees) { // do something amazing };
Specifications
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
deviceorientation_event |
7 |
12 |
6
3.6-6
|
11 |
12 |
No |
3 |
18 |
6
4-6
|
12 |
4.2 |
1.0 |
See also
devicemotion
- Detecting device orientation
- Orientation and motion data explained
- Simulating orientation events on desktop browsers with the orientation-devtool
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/deviceorientation_event