Node: ownerDocument property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The read-only ownerDocument property of the Node interface
returns the top-level document object of the node.
Value
A Document that is the top-level object in which all the
child nodes are created.
If this property is used on a node that is itself a document, the value is null.
Example
js
// Given a node "p", get the top-level HTML
// child of the document object
const d = p.ownerDocument;
const html = d.documentElement;
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-node-ownerdocument① |
Browser compatibility
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