🏠 New in High Baseline Support: Device orientation events
March 18, 2026
The DeviceMotion and DeviceOrientation events report the movement and orientation of the browser’s device in physical space. Note that coordinates can differ noticeably between platforms and devices.
Source features
api.DeviceOrientationEvent[mdn]api.DeviceOrientationEvent.alpha[mdn]api.DeviceOrientationEvent.beta[mdn]api.DeviceOrientationEvent.gamma[mdn]api.Window.deviceorientation_event[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEvent[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEvent.acceleration[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEvent.accelerationIncludingGravity[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEvent.interval[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEvent.rotationRate[mdn]api.Window.devicemotion_event[mdn]api.DeviceOrientationEvent.absolute[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEventAcceleration[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEventAcceleration.x[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEventAcceleration.y[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEventAcceleration.z[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEventRotationRate[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEventRotationRate.alpha[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEventRotationRate.beta[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEventRotationRate.gamma[mdn]api.Window.deviceorientationabsolute_event[mdn]api.DeviceOrientationEvent.DeviceOrientationEvent[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEvent.DeviceMotionEvent[mdn]api.DeviceMotionEvent.requestPermission_static[mdn]api.DeviceOrientationEvent.requestPermission_static[mdn]