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

This may or may not help anyone, but I had a page I could not get to center correctly no matter what Css tricks I tried so I wrote a JQuery file call Center Page:

The problem occurred with zoom level of the browser, the page would shift based upon if you were 100%, 125%, 150%, etc.

The code below is in a JQuery file called centerpage.js.

From my page I had to link to JQuery and this file to get it work, even though my master page already had a link to JQuery.

centerpage.js:

// centering page element
function centerPage() {
    // get body element
    var body = document.body;

    // if the body element exists
    if (body != null) {
        // get the clientWidth
        var clientWidth = body.clientWidth;

        // request data for centering
        var windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
        var left = (windowWidth - bodyWidth) / 2;

        // this is a hack, but it works for me a better method is to determine the 
        // scale but for now it works for my needs
        if (left > 84) {
            // the zoom level is most likely around 150 or higher
            $('#MainBody').removeClass('body').addClass('body150');
        } else if (left < 100) {
            // the zoom level is most likely around 110 - 140
            $('#MainBody').removeClass('body').addClass('body125');
        }
    }
}


// CONTROLLING EVENTS IN jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
    // center the page
    centerPage();
});

Also if you want to center a panel:

// centering panel
function centerPanel($panelControl) {
    // if the panel control exists
    if ($panelControl && $panelControl.length) {
        // request data for centering
        var windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
        var windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
        var panelHeight = $panelControl.height();
        var panelWidth = $panelControl.width();

        // centering
        $panelControl.css({
            'position': 'absolute',
            'top': (windowHeight - panelHeight) / 2,
            'left': (windowWidth - panelWidth) / 2
        });

        // only need force for IE6
        $('#backgroundPanel').css('height', windowHeight);
    }
}