Viewport is a component to ease viewport management. You can get the dimensions of the viewport and beyond, which can be quite helpful to perform some checks with JavaScript.
It's cross-browser compatible:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
- IE9
- IE8
- IE7
- Opera Mobile 12
- Safari Mobile
$ component install pazguille/viewport
See: https://github.com/component/component
Also, you can use it without components.
<script src="../standalone/viewport.js"></script>First, add the following meta viewport:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0">Then, initialize the Viewport:
var viewport = require('viewport');Now, starts to use it!
viewport.height // Returns the current height of the viewport. (Read below the API)Returns the current width of viewport (in pixels).
Returns the current height of viewport (in pixels).
Calculates/updates the dimensions (width and height) of viewport (in pixels).
Returns offset top of viewport.
Returns offset right of viewport.
Returns offset bottom of viewport.
Returns offset left of viewport.
Calculates/updates the viewport position.
Returns vertical scroll position of viewport.
Returns horizontal scroll position of viewport.
Calculates/updates the scroll positions (scrollY and scrollX) of viewport.
Returns the device orientation: landscape or portrait.
### Viewport#calculateOrientation()
Calculates/updates the device orientation.
### Viewport#calculateMousePostition() Gets the position of the mouse cursor in screen coordinates. Returns an object with the following properties:
posY: y coordinate of the mouse pointer.posX: x coordinate of the mouse pointer.
### Viewport#device
Device size is static and doesn't change when the page is resized. Returns an object with size of device (width and height).
### Viewport#inViewport() Calculate if an element is completely located in the viewport. Returns boolean.
### Viewport#isVisible() Calculates if an element is visible in the viewport. Returns boolean.
### Viewport#refresh() Updates the viewport dimension, viewport positions and orientation.
### Events
scroll: emitted when the viewport are scrolled.resize: emitted when the dimensions of the viewport changes.bottom: emitted when the viewport position is the bottom.top: emitted when the viewport position is the top.
- Guille Paz (Frontend developer - JavaScript developer | Web standards lover)
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- Twitter: @pazguille
- Web: http://pazguille.me
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