HTML DOM Screen colorDepth Property

Last Updated : 14 Jun, 2023

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> 