Open Divi Gallery in Full-Screen Mode

Written by Dan Mossop

Divi includes a gallery module which lets you display a grid of images. When clicked, these images open in a lightbox popup. If you'd like to make this gallery popup more prominent, here's how to make the browser switch to full-screen mode while displaying the gallery module lightbox.

Display Divi Galleries in Full-screen Mode with jQuery

The following jQuery code will detect when a gallery module image is clicked on and request that the browser switches to full-screen mode. Then it will trigger the browser to exit full screen mode when the gallery module lightbox popup is closed:

<script>
jQuery(function($) {
	var doc = window.document;
	var docEl = doc.documentElement;
	var requestFullScreen = docEl.requestFullscreen || docEl.mozRequestFullScreen || docEl.webkitRequestFullScreen || docEl.msRequestFullscreen;
	var cancelFullScreen = doc.exitFullscreen || doc.mozCancelFullScreen || doc.webkitExitFullscreen || doc.msExitFullscreen;
	$('body').on('click', '.et_pb_gallery_image', function() {
		if(!doc.fullscreenElement && !doc.mozFullScreenElement && !doc.webkitFullscreenElement && !doc.msFullscreenElement) {
			requestFullScreen.call(docEl);
		}
	});
	$('body').on('click', '.mfp-container', function(e) {
		if(doc.fullscreenElement || doc.mozFullScreenElement || doc.webkitFullscreenElement || doc.msFullscreenElement) {
			console.log($(e.target).attr('class'));
			if (!$(e.target).is('.mfp-arrow, .mfp-img')) {
				cancelFullScreen.call(doc);
			}
		}
	});
});
</script>

Many thanks to Dylan at hddev.fr for the idea and initial version of the code :)

About Dan Mossop

Dan is a Scottish-born web developer, now living in Brisbane with his wife and son. He has been sharing tips and helping users with Divi since 2014. He created Divi Booster, the first Divi plugin, and continues to develop it along with 20+ other Divi plugins. Dan has a PhD in Computer Science, a background in web security and likes a lot of stuff, 

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