Window: moveTo() method

~~{{APIRef("CSSOM view API")}}~~

The moveTo() method of the ~~{{domxref("Window")}}~~Window interface moves the current window to the specified coordinates.

~~[!NOTE]~~NOTE: This function moves the window to an absolute location. In contrast, ~~{{domxref("~~window.moveBy()~~")}}~~ moves the window relative to its current location.

Syntax

moveTo(x, y)

Parameters

x
- : The horizontal coordinate to be moved to.
y
- : The vertical coordinate to be moved to.

Return value

None (~~{{jsxref("undefined")}}~~undefined).

Examples

This example moves the window to the top-left corner of the screen.

function origin() {
  window.moveTo(0, 0);
}

Specifications

~~{{Specifications}}~~

Browser compatibility

~~{{Compat}}~~

As of Firefox 7, websites can no longer move a browser window in the following cases:

You can't move a window or tab that wasn't created by ~~{{domxref("~~Window.open()~~")}}~~.
You can't move a window or tab when it's in a window with more than one tab.

~~[!NOTE]~~NOTE: This function might not move the window synchronously. In some environments (like Wayland, or mobile) it might not move the window at all. Currently there's no way to listen to a move event, see CSS Working Group issue #7693.