HTML DOM Document characterSet
Example
Get the character encoding for a document:
encoding = document.characterSet;
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Description
The characterSet property returns the character encoding for a document.
See Also:
Deprecated Aliases:
Syntax
document.characterSet
Return Value
| Type | Description |
| String | The document's character encoding. |
Browser Support
document.characterSet is a DOM Level 3 (2004) feature.
It is fully supported in all modern browsers:
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Safari | Opera | IE |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 11 |
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