DocumentType: name 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 read-onlyname property of theDocumentType returns the type of the document.
For syntheticDocumentType, this property reflects the value given in parameter toDOMImplementation.createDocumentType().
For HTML documents, browsers always set it up tohtml, whatever the actualdoctype in the source code is.
Value
A string.
Examples
js
const docType = document.implementation.createDocumentType("html", "", "");console.log(docType.name); // Displays `html`Specifications
| Specification |
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| DOM # dom-documenttype-name |