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zhongshu
zhongshu

Reputation: 7878

How to trigger the window resize event in JavaScript?

I have registered a trigger on window resize. I want to know how I can trigger the event to be called. For example, when hide a div, I want my trigger function to be called.

I found window.resizeTo() can trigger the function, but is there any other solution?

Upvotes: 439

Views: 610526

Answers (10)

Fenton
Fenton

Reputation: 250802

Where possible, I prefer to call the function rather than dispatch an event. This works well if you have control over the code you want to run, but see below for cases where you don't own the code.

window.onresize = doALoadOfStuff;

function doALoadOfStuff() {
    //do a load of stuff
}

In this example, you can call the doALoadOfStuff function without dispatching an event.

In your modern browsers, you can trigger the event using:

window.dispatchEvent(new Event('resize'));

This doesn't work in Internet Explorer, where you'll have to do the longhand:

var resizeEvent = window.document.createEvent('UIEvents'); 
resizeEvent.initUIEvent('resize', true, false, window, 0); 
window.dispatchEvent(resizeEvent);

jQuery has the trigger method, which works like this:

$(window).trigger('resize');

And has the caveat:

Although .trigger() simulates an event activation, complete with a synthesized event object, it does not perfectly replicate a naturally-occurring event.

You can also simulate events on a specific element...

function simulateClick(id) {
  var event = new MouseEvent('click', {
    'view': window,
    'bubbles': true,
    'cancelable': true
  });

  var elem = document.getElementById(id); 

  return elem.dispatchEvent(event);
}

Upvotes: 495

webaholik
webaholik

Reputation: 1795

I believe this should work for all browsers:

var event;
if (typeof (Event) === 'function') {
    event = new Event('resize');
} else { /*IE*/
    event = document.createEvent('Event');
    event.initEvent('resize', true, true);
}
window.dispatchEvent(event);

Upvotes: 2

Sergio Wilson
Sergio Wilson

Reputation: 11

Response with RxJS

Say Like something in Angular

size$: Observable<number> = fromEvent(window, 'resize').pipe(
            debounceTime(250),
            throttleTime(300),
            mergeMap(() => of(document.body.clientHeight)),
            distinctUntilChanged(),
            startWith(document.body.clientHeight),
          );

If manual subscription desired (Or Not Angular)

this.size$.subscribe((g) => {
      console.log('clientHeight', g);
    })

Since my intial startWith Value might be incorrect (dispatch for correction)

window.dispatchEvent(new Event('resize'));

In say Angular (I could..)

<div class="iframe-container"  [style.height.px]="size$ | async" >..

Upvotes: 0

pfirpfel
pfirpfel

Reputation: 2250

Combining pomber's and avetisk's answers to cover all browsers and not causing warnings:

if (typeof(Event) === 'function') {
  // modern browsers
  window.dispatchEvent(new Event('resize'));
} else {
  // for IE and other old browsers
  // causes deprecation warning on modern browsers
  var evt = window.document.createEvent('UIEvents'); 
  evt.initUIEvent('resize', true, false, window, 0); 
  window.dispatchEvent(evt);
}

Upvotes: 74

avetisk
avetisk

Reputation: 12319

window.dispatchEvent(new Event('resize'));

Upvotes: 859

pomber
pomber

Reputation: 23980

A pure JS that also works on IE (from @Manfred comment)

var evt = window.document.createEvent('UIEvents'); 
evt.initUIEvent('resize', true, false, window, 0); 
window.dispatchEvent(evt);

Or for angular:

$timeout(function() {
    var evt = $window.document.createEvent('UIEvents'); 
    evt.initUIEvent('resize', true, false, $window, 0); 
    $window.dispatchEvent(evt);
});

Upvotes: 54

Matt Sich
Matt Sich

Reputation: 4105

just

$(window).resize();

is what I use... unless I misunderstand what you're asking for.

Upvotes: 9

T.O.
T.O.

Reputation: 39

window.resizeBy() will trigger window's onresize event. This works in both Javascript or VBScript.

window.resizeBy(xDelta, yDelta) called like window.resizeBy(-200, -200) to shrink page 200px by 200px.

Upvotes: -2

BBQ Singular
BBQ Singular

Reputation: 467

I wasn't actually able to get this to work with any of the above solutions. Once I bound the event with jQuery then it worked fine as below:

$(window).bind('resize', function () {
    resizeElements();
}).trigger('resize');

Upvotes: 16

Benjamin Crouzier
Benjamin Crouzier

Reputation: 41855

With jQuery, you can try to call trigger:

$(window).trigger('resize');

Upvotes: 159

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