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Hide the address bar in a fullscreen iPhone or Android web app
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset=utf-8>
<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
<meta name=apple-mobile-web-app-capable content=yes>
<meta name=apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style content=black>
<title>Test fullscreen</title>
<style>
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#page {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
border: 8px solid #f00;
}
</style>
<div id=page></div>
<script>
var page = document.getElementById('page'),
ua = navigator.userAgent,
iphone = ~ua.indexOf('iPhone') || ~ua.indexOf('iPod'),
ipad = ~ua.indexOf('iPad'),
ios = iphone || ipad,
// Detect if this is running as a fullscreen app from the homescreen
fullscreen = window.navigator.standalone,
android = ~ua.indexOf('Android'),
lastWidth = 0;
if (android) {
// Android's browser adds the scroll position to the innerHeight, just to
// make this really fucking difficult. Thus, once we are scrolled, the
// page height value needs to be corrected in case the page is loaded
// when already scrolled down. The pageYOffset is of no use, since it always
// returns 0 while the address bar is displayed.
window.onscroll = function() {
page.style.height = window.innerHeight + 'px'
}
}
var setupScroll = window.onload = function() {
// Start out by adding the height of the location bar to the width, so that
// we can scroll past it
if (ios) {
// iOS reliably returns the innerWindow size for documentElement.clientHeight
// but window.innerHeight is sometimes the wrong value after rotating
// the orientation
var height = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
// Only add extra padding to the height on iphone / ipod, since the ipad
// browser doesn't scroll off the location bar.
if (iphone && !fullscreen) height += 60;
page.style.height = height + 'px';
} else if (android) {
// The stock Android browser has a location bar height of 56 pixels, but
// this very likely could be broken in other Android browsers.
page.style.height = (window.innerHeight + 56) + 'px'
}
// Scroll after a timeout, since iOS will scroll to the top of the page
// after it fires the onload event
setTimeout(scrollTo, 0, 0, 1);
};
(window.onresize = function() {
var pageWidth = page.offsetWidth;
// Android doesn't support orientation change, so check for when the width
// changes to figure out when the orientation changes
if (lastWidth == pageWidth) return;
lastWidth = pageWidth;
setupScroll();
})();
</script>
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