Range: startContainer property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

The Range.startContainer read-only property returns the Node within which the Range starts. To change the start position of a node, use one of the Range.setStart() methods.

Value

A Node object.

Examples

js
range = document.createRange();
range.setStart(startNode, startOffset);
range.setEnd(endNode, endOffset);
startRangeNode = range.startContainer;

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# ref-for-dom-range-startcontainer①

Browser compatibility

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See also