Document: characterSet 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.
TheDocument.characterSetread-only property returns thecharacter encoding of thedocument that it's currently rendered with.
Note:A "character set" and a "character encoding" are related, but different. Despite thename of this property, it returns theencoding.
Value
A string.
Examples
js
console.log(document.characterSet);// document's character encoding, such as "ISO-8859-1" or "UTF-8"Specifications
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| DOM # ref-for-dom-document-characterset① |