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 20availablebrowser prefix
Chrome 26availablebrowser prefix
Safari 6availablebrowser prefix
Internet Explorer 9--
Internet Explorer 10--
Opera 12--
Opera 12.10-W3C draft
iOS 5 (iPhone)n/a 1n/a 1
iOS 5 (iPad)availablelegacy webkit
iOS 6 (iPhone)n/a 1n/a 1
iOS 6 (iPad)availablelegacy webkit
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)availablelegacy webkit
Android 4.1 (Nexus 7)availablelegacy webkit
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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