jQuery Fullscreen Plugin

Description

This jQuery plugin provides a simple to use mechanism to control the new fullscreen mode of modern browsers. Currently only newer Webkit-based browsers (Like Chrome) and Firefox provide this new fullscreen feature.

Usage

Entering Fullscreen mode

You can either switch the whole page or a single HTML element to fullscreen mode:

$(document).fullScreen(true);
$("#myVideo").fullScreen(true);

This only works when the code was triggered by a user interaction (For example a onclick event on a button). Browsers don't allow entering fullscreen mode without user interaction.

Exiting Fullscreen mode

Fullscreen mode is always exited via the document but this plugin allows it also via any HTML element. The owner document of the selected HTML element is used then:

$(document).fullScreen(false);
$("#myVideo").fullScreen(false);

Querying Fullscreen mode

Simply pass no argument to the fullScreen method to query the current state. The method returns true when fullscreen mode is active, false if not or null when the browser does not support fullscreen mode at all. So you can use this method also to display a fullscreen button only when the browser supports fullscreen mode:

$("#fullscreenButton").toggle($(document).fullScreen() != null))

Toggling Fullscreen mode

The plugin provides another method for simple fullscreen mode toggling:

$(document).toggleFullScreen();