Document: close() method

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.close() method finishes writing to a document, opened with Document.open().

Syntax

js
close()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

js
// Open a document to write to it
document.open();

// Write the content of the document
document.write("<p>The one and only content.</p>");

// Close the document
document.close();

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-document-close-dev

Browser compatibility

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