--- title: orientationchange slug: Web/API/Window/orientationchange_event translation_of: Web/API/Window/orientationchange_event ---

L'evento orientationchange si scatena quando viene modificato l'orientamento del dispositivo.

Informazioni generali

Specification: Compatibility Living Standard
Interface: Event
Bubbles: No
Cancelable: No
Target: Screen
Default Action: None

Properties

Property	Type	Description
`target` {{readonlyInline}}	{{domxref("EventTarget")}}	The event target (the topmost target in the DOM tree).
`type` {{readonlyInline}}	{{domxref("DOMString")}}	The type of event.
`bubbles` {{readonlyInline}}	{{jsxref("Boolean")}}	Whether the event normally bubbles or not.
`cancelable` {{readonlyInline}}	{{jsxref("Boolean")}}	Whether the event is cancellable or not.

Example

// Note that "orientationchange" and screen.orientation are unprefixed in the following
// code although this API is still vendor-prefixed browsers implementing it.
window.addEventListener("orientationchange", function() {
    alert("the orientation of the device is now " + screen.orientation.angle);
});