The problem
I'm using javascript to calculate widths of elements to achieve the layout I'm after. The problem is, I don't want to load the code on smaller screen sizes (when the screen width is less than 480px for example). I'd like this to work on load and on browser/viewport resize.
I'd consider small screen devices 'the default' and working up from there. So, none of the following script is called by default, then if the browser width is greater than 480px (for example), the following script would be called:
The code
$(document).ready(function() {
//Get the figures width
var figure_width = $(".project-index figure").css("width").replace("px", "");
//Get num figures
var num_figures = $(".project-index figure").length;
//Work out how manay figures per row
var num_row_figures = Math.ceil(num_figures / 2);
//Get the total width
var row_width = figure_width * num_row_figures;
//Set container width to half the total
$(".project-index").width(row_width);
x = null;
y = null;
$(".project-index div").mousedown(function(e) {
x = e.clientX;
y = e.clientY;
});
$(".project-index div").mouseup(function(e) {
if (x == e.clientX && y == e.clientY) {
//alert($(this).next().attr("href"));
window.location.assign($(this).next().attr("href"));
}
x = y = null;
});
});
// Drag-on content
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('#main').dragOn();
});
The extra bit
The slight difference on larger screens is to do with the browser/viewport height. This is in regards to the line:
var num_row_figures = Math.ceil(num_figures / 2);
You can see once the calculation has a value, it divides it by 2. I only want this to happen when the browser/viewport height is above a certain amount - say 600px.
I'd be happy with this being the 1st state and then the value is divided by 2 if the height is greater than 600px if it's easier.
Can anyone help me/shed some light on how to manage my script this way. I know there's media queries for managing CSS but I can't seem to find any resources for how to manage javascript this way - hope someone can help.
Cheers,
Steve
You can use window.matchMedia, which is the javascript equivalent of media queries. The matchMedia call creates a mediaQueryList object. We can query the mediaQueryList object matches property to get the state, and attach an event handler using mediaQueryList.addListener to track changes.
I've added an example on fiddle of using matchMedia on load and on resize. Change the bottom left pane height and width (using the borders), and see the states of the two queries.
This is the code I've used:
<div>Min width 400: <span id="minWidth400"></span></div>
<div>Min height 600: <span id="minHeight600"></span></div>
var matchMinWidth400 = window.matchMedia("(min-width: 400px)"); // create a MediaQueryList
var matchMinHeight600 = window.matchMedia("(min-height: 600px)"); // create a MediaQueryList
var minWidth400Status = document.getElementById('minWidth400');
var minHeight600Status = document.getElementById('minHeight600');
function updateMinWidth400(state) {
minWidth400Status.innerText = state;
}
function updateMinHeight600(state) {
minHeight600Status.innerText = state;
}
updateMinWidth400(matchMinWidth400.matches); // check match on load
updateMinHeight600(matchMinHeight600.matches); // check match on load
matchMinWidth400.addListener(function(MediaQueryListEvent) { // check match on resize
updateMinWidth400(MediaQueryListEvent.matches);
});
matchMinHeight600.addListener(function(MediaQueryListEvent) { // check match on resize
updateMinHeight600(MediaQueryListEvent.matches);
});
#media screen and (max-width: 300px) {
body {
background-color: lightblue;
}
}
So i searched a bit and came up with this example from w3 schools .http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss3_media_example1
i think this is something you are trying to achieve.
For pure js , you can get the screen width by screen.width
hoping to get some JS/CSS help here. I need to have the checkout button on a page of mine go to the top of the page and become fixed if the user can no longer see it scrolling down the page in mobile view. I'm hoping someone can help! The one thing messing me up is that I can't use jQuery
![function checkoutScroll() {
var button = document.querySelector('.cartSidebar__checkoutButton');
window.addEventListener('scroll', function () {
var distanceFromTop = document.body.scrollTop;
if (distanceFromTop === 0) {
button.style.position = 'static';
button.style.top = 'auto';
}
if (distanceFromTop > 0) {
button.style.position = 'fixed';
button.style.top = '0px';
}
});
}
What you are trying to achieve can be done through CSS which would make more sense as it's a visual / UI task. I would add top margin equivalent to the css height of your button and leave it as fixed top. As a benefit, you would be able to take advantage of the media queries to limit the CSS rules to the mobile view.
#media screen and (max-width: 960px) {
.container{
margin: 3em;
}
.checkout_button{
display:block;
position:fixed;
top:0;
left:0;
width:100%;
}
}
something very simple like https://jsfiddle.net/f19Lus43/
If you want to stay in javascript for some obscure reasons ( I can't say compatibility because of document.querySelector is working only on evolved browser ) it's up to you but having an example of your code would help us respond :)
So I take it you want the function to only run on smaller screens/browser viewports? Is that what you mean by "mobile view"? I've been using this for a while. Not sure if its better than Glen's solution but it's worked for me without fault. First we define our functions:
function updateViewportDimensions() {
var w=window,d=document,e=d.documentElement,g=d.getElementsByTagName('body')[0],x=w.innerWidth||e.clientWidth||g.clientWidth,y=w.innerHeight||e.clientHeight||g.clientHeight;
return { width:x,height:y };
}
// setting the viewport width
var viewport = updateViewportDimensions();
function detectMob() {
viewport = updateViewportDimensions();
if (viewport.width <= 768) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
Then every time you need to check if the size of the viewport is less than 768 pixels wide you do:
if (detectMob){
//your code here
}
I have div which has inside few divs, few images and two selects. I want to make my main division and all of its content to automatically resize depending on the screen. How can I do it?
Thank you :)
You use media queries for this. It is called responsive design
#media screen and (max-width: 699px) {
div {
width: 40px;
}
}
This will essentially change the width of div to 40px only if the screen width is less than 699px
Further reference:
CSS-Tricks
Here is a tried-and-tested script which even accomodates prehistoric browsers such as IE4. It takes the viewport approach, which means divisions can be updated when a user resizes their browser window.
<script>
window.onResize = function() {
if (window.innerWidth) { // All browsers but IE
myViewportWidth = window.innerWidth;
myViewportHeight = window.innerHeight;
}
else if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientWidth) {
// These functions are for IE6 when there is a DOCTYPE
myViewportWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
myViewportHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
}
else if (document.body.clientWidth) {
// These are for IE4, IE5, and IE6 without a DOCTYPE
myViewportWidth = document.body.clientWidth;
myViewportHeight = document.body.clientHeight;
}
// now call customResize with your chosen new dimensions
// you'll probably need to insert a bit of arithmetic here:
// *calculate new values here*
customResize( MY_NEW_X_VALUE, MY_NEW_Y_VALUE );
}// function
</script>
Once you have the viewport dimensions you can resize your main division according to the specific dimensions of the viewport.
I generally use one main division for the content placed inside the 'body' element for convenience. Then modify the following script according to the dimensions you need.
<script>
function customResize(newWidth, newHeight){
var X = newWidth;
var Y = newHeight;
var e = document.getElementById('mainDiv').style.width = 'X';
var f = document.getElementById('mainDiv').style.height = 'Y';
</script>
Take care to test the code with different browsers however - sometimes odd versions of browsers can return unusual values.
I've written some jQuery code to display a box with data in the corner of the users' web browser. I'm using the .scroll event to make the box stay in the corner as the user scrolls up and down the page. Let me emphasize that I am not using jquery-ui dialog.
The only problem is that the box flickers as the page scrolls. I'm afraid that there will be no cross-browser solution to this problem as the different browsers seem to behave differently with scrolling. Barring a cross-browser solution, an IE solution would be nice (My web application is designed to be used by a specific group of about 100 users in my organization.)
Here are snippets of the relative code:
ExternalScroll: function () {
LittleBlackBook.setPosition();
}
setPosition: function () {
var scrollPosition = $(self).scrollTop();
var cssTop = LittleBlackBookStatic.determineCssTop(this.height, this.isTop, this.vOffset, scrollPosition);
var cssHeight = LittleBlackBookStatic.determineCssHeight(this.height);
var cssLeft = LittleBlackBookStatic.determineCssLeft(this.width, this.isLeft, this.hOffset);
var cssWidth = LittleBlackBookStatic.determineCssWidth(this.width);
this.jQueryObj.css('top', cssTop);
this.jQueryObj.css('height', cssHeight);
this.jQueryObj.css('left', cssLeft);
this.jQueryObj.css('width', cssWidth);
}
var LittleBlackBookStatic = {
determineCssTop: function (height, isTop, vOffset, vScroll) {
var windowHeight = $(self).height();
var scrollPosition = $(self).scrollTop();
var newModalTop = isTop ? vOffset + vScroll : windowHeight - height + vScroll - vOffset;
return newModalTop + 'px';
},
determineCssHeight: function (height) {
return height + 'px';
},
determineCssLeft: function (width, isLeft, hOffset) {
var windowWidth = $(self).width();
var newModalLeft = isLeft ? hOffset : windowWidth - width - hOffset;
return newModalLeft + 'px';
},
determineCssWidth: function (width) {
return width + 'px';
}
} // end LittleBlackBookStatic
I'm using jQuery to look up the scroll position as the page scrolls and change the CSS.
Is there a better way; a way that will make it scroll without flickering? If no, then why not?
You should use fixed positioning for that box instead instead of animating it to keep it in the corner.
You'll use less javascript and avoid flickering that comes with animation.
Is it possible to detect, using JavaScript, when the user changes the zoom in a page?
I simply want to catch a "zoom" event and respond to it (similar to window.onresize event).
Thanks.
There's no way to actively detect if there's a zoom. I found a good entry here on how you can attempt to implement it.
I’ve found two ways of detecting the
zoom level. One way to detect zoom
level changes relies on the fact that
percentage values are not zoomed. A
percentage value is relative to the
viewport width, and thus unaffected by
page zoom. If you insert two elements,
one with a position in percentages,
and one with the same position in
pixels, they’ll move apart when the
page is zoomed. Find the ratio between
the positions of both elements and
you’ve got the zoom level. See test
case.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080723161031/http://novemberborn.net/javascript/page-zoom-ff3
You could also do it using the tools of the above post. The problem is you're more or less making educated guesses on whether or not the page has zoomed. This will work better in some browsers than other.
There's no way to tell if the page is zoomed if they load your page while zoomed.
Lets define px_ratio as below:
px ratio = ratio of physical pixel to css px.
if any one zoom The Page, the viewport pxes (px is different from pixel ) reduces and should be fit to The screen so the ratio (physical pixel / CSS_px ) must get bigger.
but in window Resizing, screen size reduces as well as pxes. so the ratio will maintain.
zooming: trigger windows.resize event --> and change px_ratio
but
resizing: trigger windows.resize event --> doesn’t change px_ratio
//for zoom detection
px_ratio = window.devicePixelRatio || window.screen.availWidth / document.documentElement.clientWidth;
$(window).resize(function(){isZooming();});
function isZooming(){
var newPx_ratio = window.devicePixelRatio || window.screen.availWidth / document.documentElement.clientWidth;
if(newPx_ratio != px_ratio){
px_ratio = newPx_ratio;
console.log("zooming");
return true;
}else{
console.log("just resizing");
return false;
}
}
The key point is difference between CSS PX and Physical Pixel.
https://gist.github.com/abilogos/66aba96bb0fb27ab3ed4a13245817d1e
Good news everyone some people! Newer browsers will trigger a window resize event when the zoom is changed.
I'm using this piece of JavaScript to react to Zoom "events".
It polls the window width.
(As somewhat suggested on this page (which Ian Elliott linked to): http://novemberborn.net/javascript/page-zoom-ff3 [archive])
Tested with Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and Opera, not IE.
Regards, Magnus
var zoomListeners = [];
(function(){
// Poll the pixel width of the window; invoke zoom listeners
// if the width has been changed.
var lastWidth = 0;
function pollZoomFireEvent() {
var widthNow = jQuery(window).width();
if (lastWidth == widthNow) return;
lastWidth = widthNow;
// Length changed, user must have zoomed, invoke listeners.
for (i = zoomListeners.length - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
zoomListeners[i]();
}
}
setInterval(pollZoomFireEvent, 100);
})();
This works for me:
var deviceXDPI = screen.deviceXDPI;
setInterval(function(){
if(screen.deviceXDPI != deviceXDPI){
deviceXDPI = screen.deviceXDPI;
... there was a resize ...
}
}, 500);
It's only needed on IE8. All the other browsers naturally generate a resize event.
There is a nifty plugin built from yonran that can do the detection. Here is his previously answered question on StackOverflow. It works for most of the browsers. Application is as simple as this:
window.onresize = function onresize() {
var r = DetectZoom.ratios();
zoomLevel.innerHTML =
"Zoom level: " + r.zoom +
(r.zoom !== r.devicePxPerCssPx
? "; device to CSS pixel ratio: " + r.devicePxPerCssPx
: "");
}
Demo
Although this is a 9 yr old question, the problem persists!
I have been detecting resize while excluding zoom in a project, so I edited my code to make it work to detect both resize and zoom exclusive from one another. It works most of the time, so if most is good enough for your project, then this should be helpful! It detects zooming 100% of the time in what I've tested so far. The only issue is that if the user gets crazy (ie. spastically resizing the window) or the window lags it may fire as a zoom instead of a window resize.
It works by detecting a change in window.outerWidth or window.outerHeight as window resizing while detecting a change in window.innerWidth or window.innerHeight independent from window resizing as a zoom.
//init object to store window properties
var windowSize = {
w: window.outerWidth,
h: window.outerHeight,
iw: window.innerWidth,
ih: window.innerHeight
};
window.addEventListener("resize", function() {
//if window resizes
if (window.outerWidth !== windowSize.w || window.outerHeight !== windowSize.h) {
windowSize.w = window.outerWidth; // update object with current window properties
windowSize.h = window.outerHeight;
windowSize.iw = window.innerWidth;
windowSize.ih = window.innerHeight;
console.log("you're resizing"); //output
}
//if the window doesn't resize but the content inside does by + or - 5%
else if (window.innerWidth + window.innerWidth * .05 < windowSize.iw ||
window.innerWidth - window.innerWidth * .05 > windowSize.iw) {
console.log("you're zooming")
windowSize.iw = window.innerWidth;
}
}, false);
Note: My solution is like KajMagnus's, but this has worked better for me.
⬤ The resize event works on modern browsers by attaching the event on window, and then reading values of thebody, or other element with for example (.getBoundingClientRect()).
In some earlier browsers it was possible to register resize event
handlers on any HTML element. It is still possible to set onresize
attributes or use addEventListener() to set a handler on any element.
However, resize events are only fired on the window object (i.e.
returned by document.defaultView). Only handlers registered on the
window object will receive resize events.
⚠️ Do resize your tab, or zoom, to trigger this snippet:
window.addEventListener("resize", getSizes, false)
function getSizes(){
let body = document.body
body.width = window.innerWidth
body.height = window.innerHeight
console.log(body.width +"px x "+ body.height + "px")
}
getSizes()
⬤ An other modern alternative: the ResizeObserver API
Depending your layout, you can watch for resizing on a particular element.
This works well on «responsive» layouts, because the container box get resized when zooming.
function watchBoxchange(e){
info.textContent = e[0].contentBoxSize[0].inlineSize+" x "+e[0].contentBoxSize[0].blockSize + "px"
}
new ResizeObserver(watchBoxchange).observe(fluid)
#fluid {
width: 200px;
height:100px;
overflow: auto;
resize: both;
border: 3px black solid;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
font-size: 8vh
}
<div id="fluid">
<info id="info"></info>
</div>
💡 Be careful to not overload javascript tasks from user gestures events. Use requestAnimationFrame whenever you needs redraws.
I'd like to suggest an improvement to previous solution with tracking changes to window width. Instead of keeping your own array of event listeners you can use existing javascript event system and trigger your own event upon width change, and bind event handlers to it.
$(window).bind('myZoomEvent', function() { ... });
function pollZoomFireEvent()
{
if ( ... width changed ... ) {
$(window).trigger('myZoomEvent');
}
}
Throttle/debounce can help with reducing the rate of calls of your handler.
According to MDN, "matchMedia" is the proper way to do this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/devicePixelRatio#Monitoring_screen_resolution_or_zoom_level_changes
it's a bit finicky because each instance can only watch one MQ at a time, so if you're interested in any zoom level change you need to make a bunch of matchers.. but since the browser is in charge to emitting the events it's probably still more performant than polling, and you could throttle or debounce the callback or pin it to an animation frame or something - here's an implementation that seems pretty snappy, feel free to swap in _throttle or whatever if you're already depending on that.
Run the code snippet and zoom in and out in your browser, note the updated value in the markup - I only tested this in Firefox! lemme know if you see any issues.
const el = document.querySelector('#dppx')
if ('matchMedia' in window) {
function observeZoom(cb, opts) {
opts = {
// first pass for defaults - range and granularity to capture all the zoom levels in desktop firefox
ceiling: 3,
floor: 0.3,
granularity: 0.05,
...opts
}
const precision = `${opts.granularity}`.split('.')[1].length
let val = opts.floor
const vals = []
while (val <= opts.ceiling) {
vals.push(val)
val = parseFloat((val + opts.granularity).toFixed(precision))
}
// construct a number of mediamatchers and assign CB to all of them
const mqls = vals.map(v => matchMedia(`(min-resolution: ${v}dppx)`))
// poor person's throttle
const throttle = 3
let last = performance.now()
mqls.forEach(mql => mql.addListener(function() {
console.debug(this, arguments)
const now = performance.now()
if (now - last > throttle) {
cb()
last = now
}
}))
}
observeZoom(function() {
el.innerText = window.devicePixelRatio
})
} else {
el.innerText = 'unable to observe zoom level changes, matchMedia is not supported'
}
<div id='dppx'>--</div>
You can also get the text resize events, and the zoom factor by injecting a div containing at least a non-breakable space (possibly, hidden), and regularly checking its height. If the height changes, the text size has changed, (and you know how much - this also fires, incidentally, if the window gets zoomed in full-page mode, and you still will get the correct zoom factor, with the same height / height ratio).
<script>
var zoomv = function() {
if(topRightqs.style.width=='200px){
alert ("zoom");
}
};
zoomv();
</script>
On iOS 10 it is possible to add an event listener to the touchmove event and to detect, if the page is zoomed with the current event.
var prevZoomFactorX;
var prevZoomFactorY;
element.addEventListener("touchmove", (ev) => {
let zoomFactorX = document.documentElement.clientWidth / window.innerWidth;
let zoomFactorY = document.documentElement.clientHeight / window.innerHeight;
let pageHasZoom = !(zoomFactorX === 1 && zoomFactorY === 1);
if(pageHasZoom) {
// page is zoomed
if(zoomFactorX !== prevZoomFactorX || zoomFactorY !== prevZoomFactorY) {
// page is zoomed with this event
}
}
prevZoomFactorX = zoomFactorX;
prevZoomFactorY = zoomFactorY;
});
Here is a clean solution:
// polyfill window.devicePixelRatio for IE
if(!window.devicePixelRatio){
Object.defineProperty(window,'devicePixelRatio',{
enumerable: true,
configurable: true,
get:function(){
return screen.deviceXDPI/screen.logicalXDPI;
}
});
}
var oldValue=window.devicePixelRatio;
window.addEventListener('resize',function(e){
var newValue=window.devicePixelRatio;
if(newValue!==oldValue){
// TODO polyfill CustomEvent for IE
var event=new CustomEvent('devicepixelratiochange');
event.oldValue=oldValue;
event.newValue=newValue;
oldValue=newValue;
window.dispatchEvent(event);
}
});
window.addEventListener('devicepixelratiochange',function(e){
console.log('devicePixelRatio changed from '+e.oldValue+' to '+e.newValue);
});
Here is a native way (major frameworks cannot zoom in Chrome, because they dont supports passive event behaviour)
//For Google Chrome
document.addEventListener("mousewheel", event => {
console.log(`wheel`);
if(event.ctrlKey == true)
{
event.preventDefault();
if(event.deltaY > 0) {
console.log('Down');
}else {
console.log('Up');
}
}
}, { passive: false });
// For Mozilla Firefox
document.addEventListener("DOMMouseScroll", event => {
console.log(`wheel`);
if(event.ctrlKey == true)
{
event.preventDefault();
if(event.detail > 0) {
console.log('Down');
}else {
console.log('Up');
}
}
}, { passive: false });
I'am replying to a 3 year old link but I guess here's a more acceptable answer,
Create .css file as,
#media screen and (max-width: 1000px)
{
// things you want to trigger when the screen is zoomed
}
EG:-
#media screen and (max-width: 1000px)
{
.classname
{
font-size:10px;
}
}
The above code makes the size of the font '10px' when the screen is zoomed to approximately 125%. You can check for different zoom level by changing the value of '1000px'.