Fullscreen Websites with jQuery.fullscreen
Many years ago, when flash websites were popular and no-one cared about SEO, websites often went fullscreen.
A fullscreen website would hide all the browser elements such as address bar and bookmarks menu.
Thanks to the jQuery.fullscreen plugin, you can add this feature to your non-Flash websites.
Here’s how to use the jQuery.fullscreen plugin:
Step #1. Download jQuery.fullscreen
- Go to the Github repository and click the Download zip button.
- Decompress the zip file.
- Find this folder: jquery.fullscreen-master/release/.
- Upload the file jquery.fullscreen-0.4.1.js to your website.
Step #2. Load jQuery and jQuery.fullscreen
Inside any HTML file, add the following code just before the closing head tag:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/jquery.fullscreen-0.4.1.js">
</script>Step #3. Define your open/close links
After the previous code, add the following:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('.open').click(function() {
$('body').fullscreen();
return false;
});
$('.close').click(function() {
$.fullscreen.exit();
return false;
});
});
</script>Inside the body tag add two links. One link is will open the fullscreen and the other will it close it again.
Use the same classes defined in previous code: .open and .close:
<p>
<a href="#" class="open">Open Fullscreen</a>
<a href="#" class="close">Exit fullscreen</a>
</p>The final result will look like the example below:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="pah/to/jquery.fullscreen-0.4.1.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('.open').click(function() {
$('body').fullscreen();
return false;
});
$('.close').click(function() {
$.fullscreen.exit();
return false;
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<a href="#" class="open">Open Fullscreen</a> / <a href="#" class="close">Exit fullscreen</a>
</p>
</body>
</html>Step #4. Test the fullscreen
- Open your HTML file using your favorite browser.
- Click on the “Open Fullscreen” link and you will see the magic.
- Click on “Exit Fullscreen” or press the Escape key to close.
nice tutorial, works fine. But is it possible to navigate through a site in fullscreen mode?
Hi Kris,
Yes. You wouldn’t get the forward or back buttons on the browser, but you would get all the website navigation elements.
it dos`n work.
I want to got my page fullscreen when it is load. Is it possible that i call this code on “onload” event of the body tag? I tried it but not working.
The open full screen doesnt work for me in Chrome. (Works fine in Safari though) Any thoughts?
I am not sure, but demo not working on my browser, I am using mozila firefox as browser and ubuntu 14.04 as OS.
same too. my browser doensn’t work. mine is latest version of chrome.
my website doesn’t working
Would love to see this incorporated into a wordpress plugin!
Your Demo is not working at all in any browser
Does it not work when reloading?
great.. it’s work, but how if the style eg. background and font color not change ? thank you
Sir, i want full screen page but no option to close the full screen page
Hi Wasim,
Were you able to get the full screen?
It doesn’t work….