Changing the browser zoom level

Question

I have need to create 2 buttons on my site that would change the browser zoom level (+) (-). I\'m requesting browser zoom and not css zoom because of image size and layout i

Answer 1

Try if this works for you. This works on FF, IE8+ and chrome. The else part applies for non-firefox browsers. Though this gives you a zoom effect, it does not actually modify the zoom value at browser level.

    var currFFZoom = 1;
    var currIEZoom = 100;

    $('#plusBtn').on('click',function(){
        if ($.browser.mozilla){
            var step = 0.02;
            currFFZoom += step; 
            $('body').css('MozTransform','scale(' + currFFZoom + ')');
        } else {
            var step = 2;
            currIEZoom += step;
            $('body').css('zoom', ' ' + currIEZoom + '%');
        }
    });

    $('#minusBtn').on('click',function(){
        if ($.browser.mozilla){
            var step = 0.02;
            currFFZoom -= step;                 
            $('body').css('MozTransform','scale(' + currFFZoom + ')');

        } else {
            var step = 2;
            currIEZoom -= step;
            $('body').css('zoom', ' ' + currIEZoom + '%');
        }
    });