Javascript to detect mobile browser screen width?

Question

i used screen.width to get the width of the browser. it worked fine with iphone safari but didn\'t work in android phone(it showed 800 width for android browser).

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Answer 1

Just read these two URLs. It should help you get what you need.

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/08/combining_media.html http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/tableViewport.html

FYI, the Android probably is 800px wide. See this article among others: Understanding Samsung Galaxy Tab screen density

Edit: Oh, I think the other guy was righter than me that pointed to the Android bug.