Document: compatMode 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 Document.compatMode read-only property indicates whether the document is rendered in Quirks mode or Standards mode.

Value

A string that is one of the following:

  • "BackCompat" if the document is in quirks mode.
  • "CSS1Compat" if the document is in no-quirks (also known as "standards") mode or limited-quirks (also known as "almost standards") mode.

Note: All these modes are now standardized, so the older "standards" and "almost standards" names are nonsensical and no longer used in standards.

Examples

js
if (document.compatMode === "BackCompat") {
  // in Quirks mode
}

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# ref-for-dom-document-compatmode①

Browser compatibility

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