How can I hook into a browser window resize event?
There's a jQuery way of listening for resize events but I would prefer not to bring it into my project for just this one requirement.
How can I hook into a browser window resize event?
There's a jQuery way of listening for resize events but I would prefer not to bring it into my project for just this one requirement.
Best practice is to attach to the resize event.
window.addEventListener('resize', function(event) {
...
}, true);
jQuery is just wrapping the standard resize DOM event, eg.
window.onresize = function(event) {
...
};
jQuery may do some work to ensure that the resize event gets fired consistently in all browsers, but I'm not sure if any of the browsers differ, but I'd encourage you to test in Firefox, Safari, and IE.
The following blog post may be useful to you: Fixing the window resize event in IE
It provides this code:
Sys.Application.add_load(function(sender, args) { $addHandler(window, 'resize', window_resize); }); var resizeTimeoutId; function window_resize(e) { window.clearTimeout(resizeTimeoutId); resizeTimeoutId = window.setTimeout('doResizeCode();', 10); }
You can use following approach which is ok for small projects
<body onresize="yourHandler(event)">
function yourHandler(e) {
console.log('Resized:', e.target.innerWidth)
}
<body onresize="yourHandler(event)">
Content... (resize browser to see)
</body>