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matchMedia

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 9)

Intent stage

None

Summary

API for testing if a given media query will apply.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/#widl-Window-matchMedia-MediaQueryList-DOMString-query
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: http://wkbug.com/37205

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Testing_media_queries

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