Changing the browser zoom level

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I have need to create 2 buttons on my site that would change the browser zoom level (+) (-). I'm requesting browser zoom and not css zoom because of image size and layout issues.

Well, is this even possible? I've heard conflicting reports.

11 Answers

I would say not possible in most browsers, at least not without some additional plugins. And in any case I would try to avoid relying on the browser's zoom as the implementations vary (some browsers only zoom the fonts, others zoom the images, too etc). Unless you don't care much about user experience.

If you need a more reliable zoom, then consider zooming the page fonts and images with JavaScript and CSS, or possibly on the server side. The image and layout scaling issues could be addressed this way. Of course, this requires a bit more work.

as the the accepted answer mentioned, you can enlarge the fontSize css attribute of the element in DOM one by one, the following code for your reference.

 <script>
    var factor = 1.2;
    var all = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
    for (var i=0, max=all.length; i < max; i++) {
        var style = window.getComputedStyle(all[i]);
        var fontSize = style.getPropertyValue('font-size');

        if(fontSize){
            all[i].style.fontSize=(parseFloat(fontSize)*factor)+"px";
        }
        if(all[i].nodeName === "IMG"){
            var width=style.getPropertyValue('width');
            var height=style.getPropertyValue('height');
            all[i].style.height = (parseFloat(height)*factor)+"px";
            all[i].style.width = (parseFloat(width)*factor)+"px";
        }
    }
</script>

I basically change the zoom attribute in the body:

  private zoomPercentage = 100;

  increaseZoom() {
    this.zoomPercentage = Math.min(200, this.zoomPercentage + 1);
    this.updateZoom();
  }

  decreaseZoom() {
    this.zoomPercentage = Math.max(10, this.zoomPercentage - 1);
    this.updateZoom();
  }

  updateZoom() {
    document.body.style.setProperty(
      'zoom',
      `${this.zoomPercentage}%`
    );
  }

You can use Window.devicePixelRatio and Window.matchMedia()

const onChange = e => {
  const pr = window.devicePixelRatio;
  const media = `(resolution: ${pr}dppx)`;
  const mql = matchMedia(media);

  const prString = (pr * 100).toFixed(0);
  const textContent = `${prString}% (${pr.toFixed(2)})`;

  console.log(textContent);
  document.getElementById('out').append(
    Object.assign(document.createElement('li'), {textContent})
  )

  mql.addEventListener('change', onChange, {once: true});
};

document.getElementById('checkZoom').addEventListener('click', e => onChange());

onChange();
<button id="checkZoom">get Zoom</button>
<ul id="out"></ul>

You can target which part of CSS zooming out and in, or the entire document.body.style.zoom

You can set the maximum and minimum zoom levels. Meaning, more clicks on the button (+) or (-) will not zoom in more or zoom out more.

var zoomingTarget = document.querySelector('.zooming-target')
var zoomInTool = document.getElementById('zoom-in');
var zoomOutTool = document.getElementById('zoom-out');

let zoomIndex = 0;

function zooming () {
    if (zoomIndex > 2) {
        zoomIndex = 2
    } else if (zoomIndex < -2) {
        zoomIndex = -2
    }
    zoomingTarget.style.zoom = "calc(100% + " + zoomIndex*10 + "%)";
}

Now make the buttons (+) and (-) work.

zoomInTool.addEventListener('click', () => {
    zoomIndex++;
    if(zoomIndex == 0) {
        console.log('zoom level is 100%')
    }
    zooming();
})

zoomOutTool.addEventListener('click', () => {
    zoomIndex--
    if(zoomIndex == 0) {
        console.log('zoom level is 100%')
    }
    zooming();
})

Since style.zoom doesn't work on Firefox, consider using style.transform = scale(x,y).

I fixed by the below code.

HTML:

<div class="mt-5"
        [ngStyle]="getStyles()">

TS:

getStyles() {
        const screenWidth = screen.width;
        const windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
        if (windowWidth != screenWidth) {
            const percentDifference = Math.ceil((screenWidth / windowWidth) * 100);
            if (percentDifference > 100) {
                this.bannerBackgroundImageSize = '20%, 74%';
            } else if (percentDifference === 100) {
                this.bannerBackgroundImageSize = '20%, 72%';
            } else if (percentDifference >= 90 && percentDifference <= 99) {
                this.bannerBackgroundImageSize = '25%, 70%';
            } else if (percentDifference >= 80 && percentDifference <= 89) {
                this.bannerBackgroundImageSize = '28%, 68%';
            } else if (percentDifference >= 75 && percentDifference <= 79) {
                this.bannerBackgroundImageSize = '29%, 67%';
            } else if (percentDifference >= 67 && percentDifference <= 74) {
                this.bannerBackgroundImageSize = '30%, 65%';
            } else if (percentDifference >= 50 && percentDifference <= 66) {
                this.bannerBackgroundImageSize = '30%, 61%';
            } else if (percentDifference < 50) {
                this.bannerBackgroundImageSize = '30%, 58%';
            }
        } else {
            this.bannerBackgroundImageSize = '20%, 72%';
        }
        const myStyles = {
            'background-size': this.bannerBackgroundImageSize,
        };
        return myStyles;
    }

I Hope this will work with all zoom levels and it can be considered with all styles.

Useful links:

https://css-tricks.com/can-javascript-detect-the-browsers-zoom-level/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Backgrounds_and_Borders/Resizing_background_images

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