How to change to Fullscreen the entire webpage with confirm()?

Question

I want that when click in "OK" in the confirm box the entire webpage go to fullscreen, but with this only get error TypeError: docelem.requestFullscreen is not a function. I tried of all but nothing...

var conf = confirm("Fullscreen mode?");
var docelem = document.documentElement;
if (conf == true) {
    docelem.requestFullscreen();
}
else if (conf == true) {
    docelem.mozRequestFullScreen();
}
else if (conf == true) {
    docelem.webkitRequestFullScreen();
}
else if (conf == true) {
    docelem.msRequestFullscreen();
}

Some solution? or is it not possible with confirm()? Because with a button works:

(function () {
    var fullscreenon = document.getElementById("fullscreenbutton");//button Id
    if (fullscreenon) {
        fullscreenon.addEventListener("click", function () {
            var docelem = document.documentElement;
            if (docelem.requestFullscreen) {
                docelem.requestFullscreen();
            }
            else if (docelem.msRequestFullscreen) {
                docelem.msRequestFullscreen();
            }
            else if (docelem.mozRequestFullScreen) {
                docelem.mozRequestFullScreen();
            }
            else if (docelem.webkitRequestFullScreen) {
                docelem.webkitRequestFullScreen();
            }
        }, false);
    }
})();

Solution

Firsty, your conditions are different between 2 samples. Right code is:

var conf = confirm("Fullscreen mode?");
var docelem = document.documentElement;

if (conf == true) {
    if (docelem.requestFullscreen) {
        docelem.requestFullscreen();
    }
    else if (docelem.mozRequestFullScreen) {
        docelem.mozRequestFullScreen();
    }
    else if (docelem.webkitRequestFullscreen) {
        docelem.webkitRequestFullscreen();
    }
    else if (docelem.msRequestFullscreen) {
        docelem.msRequestFullscreen();
    }
}

Secondly and importantly, you can't make fullscreen your page without a user interaction. This is a security restriction. If you trigger code above by a user click, it'll be work. For example:

document.onclick = function (argument) {
    var conf = confirm("Fullscreen mode?");
    var docelem = document.documentElement;

    if (conf == true) {
        if (docelem.requestFullscreen) {
            docelem.requestFullscreen();
        }
        else if (docelem.mozRequestFullScreen) {
            docelem.mozRequestFullScreen();
        }
        else if (docelem.webkitRequestFullScreen) {
            docelem.webkitRequestFullScreen();
        }
        else if (docelem.msRequestFullscreen) {
            docelem.msRequestFullscreen();
        }
    }
}

If you click anywhere on the page, fullscreen mode will be activated. More detail: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20533579/198062

Comments

[Matt Smith]

the button "OK" of confirm() box isn't user interaction?? only is user interaction if is a element that is in html, like body, button, etc... Really?

[Murat Çorlu]

Yes, I think.. :) Maybe you can use "mousemove" event of body element as an "user interaction".

[Dominik George]

The definition of „user interaction“ in MDN at developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fullscreen_API is that requestFullscreen() can only be run from within an event handler.