Fullscreen Support

This table lists fullscreen support in browsers. This is not officially part of HTML5, but still in draft state.

BrowserFullscreen controlFullscreen API
Firefox 9--
Firefox 11availablebrowser prefix
Chrome 15-browser prefix
Chrome 17-browser prefix
Safari 5.1availablebrowser prefix
Internet Explorer 9--
Opera 11.5--
iOS 4 (iPod Touch 4)n/a 1n/a 1
iOS 5 (iPad 1)available-
Android 2.2 (HTC Legend)n/a 1n/a 1
Android 2.3 (HTC Desire)n/a 1n/a 1
Android 4.0 (Galaxy S2)available-
WinPho 7.5 (HTC Radar)n/a 1n/a 1
  1. Video always plays in fullscreen.

See this blog post for details on fullscreen support.


Fullscreen Test

This video can be set fullscreen through either the built-in controls or through an API call. Fullscreen script that checks for vendor prefixes is taken from this blog post.





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