How to detect page zoom level in all modern browsers?

Question

1. How can I detect the page zoom level in all modern browsers? While this thread tells how to do it in IE7 and IE8, I can\'t find a good cross-browser solution.

Answer 1

I found this article enormously helpful. Huge thanks to yonran. I wanted to pass on some additional learning I found while implementing some of the techniques he provided. In FF6 and Chrome 9, support for media queries from JS was added, which can greatly simplify the media query approach necessary for determining zoom in FF. See the docs at MDN here. For my purposes, I only needed to detect whether the browser was zoomed in or out, I had no need for the actual zoom factor. I was able to get my answer with one line of JavaScript:

var isZoomed = window.matchMedia('(max--moz-device-pixel-ratio:0.99), (min--moz-device-pixel-ratio:1.01)').matches;

Combining this with the IE8+ and Webkit solutions, which were also single lines, I was able to detect zoom on the vast majority of browsers hitting our app with only a few lines of code.