Aquileo | HTML DOM Screen colorDepth Property

The Screen colorDepth property is used to return the bit depth of the color palette for displaying images, in bits per pixel.
The possible values are :

1 bit per pixel
4 bits per pixel
8 bits per pixel
15 bits per pixel
16 bits per pixel
24 bits per pixel
32 bits per pixel
48 bits per pixel

Syntax :

screen.colorDepth

Return Value: A Number, representing the bit depth of the color palette for displaying images, in bits per pixel.

Below program illustrates the Screen colorDepth Property :

Getting the width of the user screen.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>
      Screen colorDepth property in HTML
    </title>
    <style>
        h1 {
            color: green;
        }
        
        h2 {
            font-family: Impact;
        }
        
        body {
            text-align: center;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
    <h2>Screen colorDepth property</h2>
    
<p>
      or returning the color depth, double
      click the "Colour Depth" button:
    </p>

    <button ondblclick="color_depth()">
      Color Depth
    </button>

    <p id="depth"></p>

    <script>
        function color_depth() {

            var c = 
                "Color Depth in bits per pixel : "
                            + screen.colorDepth;
            document.getElementById("depth").innerHTML = c;

        }
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Output:

Before clicking the button:

After clicking the button:

Supported Browsers: The browser supported by HTML|Screen color Depth property are listed below:

Google Chrome 1
Edge 12
Internet Explorer 4
Firefox 1
Opera 12.1
Safari 1

HTML DOM Screen colorDepth Property

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