Document: characterSet property
The Document.characterSet
read-only property returns the character encoding of the
document that it's currently rendered with.
Note: A "character set" and a "character encoding" are related, but different. Despite the name of this property, it returns the encoding.
Value
A string.
Examples
html
<button onclick="console.log(document.characterSet);">
Log character encoding
</button>
<!-- displays document's character encoding in the dev console, such as "ISO-8859-1" or "UTF-8" -->
Specifications
Specification |
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DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-document-characterset① |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser