Visual Viewport

The portion of the {{Glossary("viewport")}} that is currently visible is called the visual viewport. This can be smaller than the layout viewport, such as when the user has pinched-zoomed. The visual viewport is the visual portion of a screen excluding on-screen keyboards, areas outside of a pinch-zoom area, or any other on-screen artifact that doesn't scale with the dimensions of a page.

See also

• Visual Viewport API
• Viewport on Wikipedia
• A tale of two viewports (Quirksmode)
• Related glossary terms:
  • {{Glossary("Viewport")}}
  • {{Glossary("Layout viewport")}}