How to find out if ipad is in landscape/portrait mode in javascript/jquery?

Question

I want to add an extra div if the ipad is in landscape mode. Is there some sort of if statement that could find this out?

Thanks

Answer 1

jQTouch checks it like so:

orientation = Math.abs(window.orientation) == 90 ? 'landscape' : 'portrait';

http://github.com/senchalabs/jQTouch/blob/master/jqtouch/jqtouch.js

You can also listen to onorientationchange events

See previous answer: Detect rotation of Android phone in the browser with JavaScript