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Detecting Orientation of Windows Phone

I'm using the JavaScript event onorientationchange and the parameter window.orientation to detect orientation changes and orientation values on my website. This works well with an iPhone and an Android. But a Windows Phone doesn't fire the onorientationchange event and window.orientation is undefined. How I detect orientation changes of Windows Phones?

Thanks, Konrad

Solution

  • IE9Mobile doesn't support these events.

    If your page is being displayed inside a WebBrowser control within a (silverlight) app then you can detect the orientation change at app level and then invoke scripts on the page to pass this information.

    If you're just running in the browser then there is no way to detect orientation changes.