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I want to make my browser full screen. Same as when we do F11 key event. I found some examples such as
function maxwin() {
var wscript = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
if (wscript!=null) {
wscript.SendKeys("{F11}");
}
}
Which does not work on mozilla or any other latest browsers. Please let me know if there is any way to sort out this problem.
Thanks. (In advance.)
use this code instead
var el = document.documentElement
, rfs = // for newer Webkit and Firefox
el.requestFullScreen
|| el.webkitRequestFullScreen
|| el.mozRequestFullScreen
|| el.msRequestFullScreen
;
if(typeof rfs!="undefined" && rfs){
rfs.call(el);
} else if(typeof window.ActiveXObject!="undefined"){
// for Internet Explorer
var wscript = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
if (wscript!=null) {
wscript.SendKeys("{F11}");
}
}
Source: How to make in Javascript full screen windows (stretching all over the screen)
Works and tested on Chrome, FF10 above, IE 8 above, Safari 5..
This is now possible in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and IE(11).
Following the pointers by Zuul on this thread, I edited his code to include IE11 and the option to full screen any element of choice on your page.
JS:
function toggleFullScreen(elem) {
// ## The below if statement seems to work better ## if ((document.fullScreenElement && document.fullScreenElement !== null) || (document.msfullscreenElement && document.msfullscreenElement !== null) || (!document.mozFullScreen && !document.webkitIsFullScreen)) {
if ((document.fullScreenElement !== undefined && document.fullScreenElement === null) || (document.msFullscreenElement !== undefined && document.msFullscreenElement === null) || (document.mozFullScreen !== undefined && !document.mozFullScreen) || (document.webkitIsFullScreen !== undefined && !document.webkitIsFullScreen)) {
if (elem.requestFullScreen) {
elem.requestFullScreen();
} else if (elem.mozRequestFullScreen) {
elem.mozRequestFullScreen();
} else if (elem.webkitRequestFullScreen) {
elem.webkitRequestFullScreen(Element.ALLOW_KEYBOARD_INPUT);
} else if (elem.msRequestFullscreen) {
elem.msRequestFullscreen();
}
} else {
if (document.cancelFullScreen) {
document.cancelFullScreen();
} else if (document.mozCancelFullScreen) {
document.mozCancelFullScreen();
} else if (document.webkitCancelFullScreen) {
document.webkitCancelFullScreen();
} else if (document.msExitFullscreen) {
document.msExitFullscreen();
}
}
}
HTML:
<input type="button" value="click to toggle fullscreen" onclick="toggleFullScreen(document.body)">
Where "document.body" is any element you so wish.
Also note that trying to run these full screen commands from the console do not appear to work on Chrome or IE. I did have success with Firebug in Firefox though.
One other thing to note is that these "full screen" commands don't have a vertical scrollbar, you need to specify this within the CSS:
*:fullscreen
*:-ms-fullscreen,
*:-webkit-full-screen,
*:-moz-full-screen {
overflow: auto !important;
}
The "!important" seems to be necessary for IE to render it
Not possible without native code or a browser extension. The ActiveXObject only exists in the IE browser.
now a days it is possible (at least webkit browsers at safari 5, chrome 16) with the
webkitEnterFullscreen()
Firefox 10 also works. check this link
no idea what i-e is doing in this topic