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useScreenOrientation ​

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Reactive Screen Orientation API. It provides web developers with information about the user's current screen orientation.

Demo ​

For best results, please use a mobile or tablet device (or use your browser's native inspector to simulate an orientation change)
isSupported: false
Orientation Type:
Orientation Angle: 0

Usage ​

ts
import { useScreenOrientation } from '@vueuse/core'

const {
  isSupported,
  orientation,
  angle,
  lockOrientation,
  unlockOrientation,
} = useScreenOrientation()

To lock the orientation, you can pass an OrientationLockType to the lockOrientation function:

ts
import { useScreenOrientation } from '@vueuse/core'

const {
  isSupported,
  orientation,
  angle,
  lockOrientation,
  unlockOrientation,
} = useScreenOrientation()

lockOrientation('portrait-primary')

and then unlock again, with the following:

ts
unlockOrientation()

Accepted orientation types are one of "landscape-primary", "landscape-secondary", "portrait-primary", "portrait-secondary", "any", "landscape", "natural" and "portrait".

Screen Orientation API MDN

Type Declarations ​

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typescript
export type OrientationType =
  | "portrait-primary"
  | "portrait-secondary"
  | "landscape-primary"
  | "landscape-secondary"
export type OrientationLockType =
  | "any"
  | "natural"
  | "landscape"
  | "portrait"
  | "portrait-primary"
  | "portrait-secondary"
  | "landscape-primary"
  | "landscape-secondary"
export interface ScreenOrientation extends EventTarget {
  lock: (orientation: OrientationLockType) => Promise<void>
  unlock: () => void
  readonly type: OrientationType
  readonly angle: number
  addEventListener: (
    type: "change",
    listener: (this: this, ev: Event) => any,
    useCapture?: boolean,
  ) => void
}
/**
 * Reactive screen orientation
 *
 * @see https://vueuse.org/useScreenOrientation
 */
export declare function useScreenOrientation(options?: ConfigurableWindow): {
  isSupported: ComputedRef<boolean>
  orientation: Ref<OrientationType | undefined>
  angle: Ref<number>
  lockOrientation: (type: OrientationLockType) => Promise<void>
  unlockOrientation: () => void
}
export type UseScreenOrientationReturn = ReturnType<typeof useScreenOrientation>

Source ​

Source • Demo • Docs

Contributors ​

Anthony Fu
Michael J. Roberts
Satrong
JunaYa
Jelf
Nicolas Hedger

Changelog ​

v10.8.0 on 2/20/2024
a086e - fix: stricter types
v10.7.0 on 12/5/2023
be3cc - fix: Add fault tolerance to lock and unlock (#3575)

Released under the MIT License.