How to show address bar again after exiting fullscreen on Android

Question

I use a HTML5 fullscreen plugin (https://github.com/kayahr/jquery-fullscreen-plugin) to view a website on request in fullscreen.

This works great - however, when I exit the fullscreen via plugin, I only see the very top bar, but not the address bar.

If I rotate the device into landscape and back into portrait mode, the address bar shows up, but I cannot expect users to know (and do) that.

How can I tell Chrome on Android to show up the address bar after programatically exiting fullscreen?

Initial state

Address bar missing after exiting fullscreen

For once, because it is good usability behaviour to reset the initial state when you exit fullscreen. But more concretely, you need the address bar to bookmark, navigate between tabs, etc — Simon Ferndriger, Jan 08 '18 at 09:23
Does programmatically scrolling on top make the addressbar show? Something like `window.scrollTo(0, 0);` might work. Let me know if it does. — Alex Pappas, Jan 30 '19 at 00:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '19 at 05:36

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To force the address bar to show again try window.scrollTo(0, 0); to force the browser to scroll which reveals the address bar. This is a kind of hacky solution.

answered Mar 23 '19 at 05:36

Raymond

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It will most probably work - however, I cannot test it since I am no longer working on this project. Would it make sense to select your response as answer nevertheless? – Simon Ferndriger Apr 02 '19 at 19:09

How to show address bar again after exiting fullscreen on Android

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