jQuery.fullscreen

jQuery.fullscreen is a jQuery plugin which allows you to open any element on the page in fullscreen mode. If this feature is not supported by the browser then element will be just stretched to fill the screen without switching to fullscreen.

Currently Fullscreen API is natively supported in Chrome 15+, Safari 5.1+ and Firefox 10. It is also present in Firefox 9.0, but it is disabled by default. You can be enable it by setting fullscreen-api.enabled to true in about:config.

Usage

Request/exit fullscreen

<div id="some_selector">
	Block to be displayed in fullscreen.
</div>

<script>
	// open element in fullscreen
	$('#some_selector').fullscreen(options);
	// close fullscreen
	$.fullscreen.exit();
</script>

Currently the following options are supported:

• overflow {'hidden'}: ‘overflow’ css-property, which is set to an element when it is being opened in fullscreen;
• toggleClass {null}: class name which is toggled when an element changes its ‘fullscreen’ state;
• documentScroll {false}: set this options to true if you want to allow document’s scroll when fullscreen mode is active.

$.fullscreen object methods

• $.fullscreen.open(element[, options]): equivalent to $(element).fullscreen(options);
• $.fullscreen.exit(): exit fullscreen mode;
• $.fullscreen.isNativelySupported() {true|false}: returns true if browser supports Fullscreen API natively;
• $.fullscreen.isFullScreen() {true|false}: returns true if there is an element opened in fullscreen.

Events

fscreenchange

fscreenchange event is sent to window.document when some element on the page changes its ‘fullscreen’ state. Three parameters are passed to an event’s handler:

• jQuery.Event object
• fullscreen state (true or false)
• Element

fscreenopen/fscreenclose

fscreenopen and fscreenclose events are sent to an element when it’s being opened in fullscreen (or exited fullscreen mode).

Browser support

Native

• Firefox 10+
• Chrome 15+
• Safari 5.1+

Fallback

• IE 8.0+ (Should work in IE7 as well, perhaps with some minor issues)
• Opera

Read more

• FullScreen API Editor’s Draft
• MDN – Using full-screen mode

License

MIT License

Copyright © 2012 Vladimir Zhuravlev

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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