Check if website is displayed on TV?

Question

If I'm watching my website on my PS4 browser on my TV, the text is very small (probably because the tv is 1920x1080) - but I actually want it to format, as if it was on mobile (filling the whole screen to be readable from my sofa).

Is there a way to check if the website is displayed on a tv-screen?

(It could be through chromecast as well)

You can do this with `@media` queries. With those you can set different rules for different resolutions. — Sebastian Simon, Sep 11 '15 at 06:35
A related SO post http://stackoverflow.com/q/17777272/1793718 — Lucky, Sep 11 '15 at 12:10
@Xufox The resolution of my tv is the exact same as my computer monitor. — LongInt, Sep 17 '15 at 16:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '15 at 06:38

You could check for a special user agent in your TV's browser by going to a page like this (http://mybrowserinfo.com/detail.asp).

Then you can use the data-useragent and data-platform attributes to selectively apply CSS (see an example here: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/javascript/add-data-attribute-of-user-agent/).

Check if website is displayed on TV?

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