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.
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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 # ref-for-dom-range-startcontainer① |