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

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/deviceorientation_event