Document: characterSet 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.

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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
DOM
# ref-for-dom-document-characterset①

Browser compatibility