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Topic #159

JS Screen

The screen object describes the user's display — width, height, colour depth. It informs responsive and adaptive design choices.


The window.screen object contains information about the user's screen.


Window Screen

The window.screen object can be written without the window prefix.

Properties:

  • screen.width
  • screen.height
  • screen.availWidth
  • screen.availHeight
  • screen.colorDepth
  • screen.pixelDepth

Window Screen Width

The screen.width property returns the width of the visitor's screen in pixels.

Example

 document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
"Screen Width: " + screen.width;

Window Screen Height

The screen.height property returns the height of the visitor's screen in pixels.

Example

 document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
"Screen Height: " + screen.height;

Window Screen Available Width

The screen.availWidth property returns the width of the visitor's screen, in pixels, minus interface features like the Windows Taskbar.

Example

 document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
"Available Screen Width: " + screen.availWidth;

Window Screen Available Height

The screen.availHeight property returns the height of the visitor's screen, in pixels, minus interface features like the Windows Taskbar.

Example

 document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
"Available Screen Height: " + screen.availHeight;

Window Screen Color Depth

The screen.colorDepth property returns the number of bits used to display one color.

All modern computers use 24 bit or 32 bit hardware for color resolution:

  • 24 bits = 16,777,216 different "True Colors"
  • 32 bits = 4,294,967,296 different "Deep Colors"

Older computers used 16 bits: 65,536 different "High Colors" resolution.

Very old computers, and old cell phones used 8 bits: 256 different "VGA colors".

Example

 document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
"Screen Color Depth: " + screen.colorDepth;

Note: The #rrggbb (rgb) values used in HTML represents "True Colors" (16,777,216 different colors)


Window Screen Pixel Depth

The screen.pixelDepth property returns the pixel depth of the screen.

Example

 document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML =
"Screen Pixel Depth: " + screen.pixelDepth;

Note: For modern computers, Color Depth and Pixel Depth are equal.

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