TextDecoder: ignoreBOM property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The ignoreBOM read-only property of the TextDecoder interface is a Boolean indicating whether the byte order mark will be included in the output or skipped over.

Value

true if the byte order mark will be included in the decoded text; false if it will be skipped over when decoding and omitted.

Specifications

Specification
Encoding
# ref-for-dom-textdecoder-ignorebom①

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobileserver
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
Node.js
ignoreBOM

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Full support
Full support