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Document: characterSet property

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The Document.characterSet read-only property returns the character encoding of the document that it’s currently rendered with.

[!NOTE] A “character set” and a “character encoding” are related, but different. Despite the name of this property, it returns the encoding.

Value

A string.

Examples

console.log(document.characterSet);
// document's character encoding, such as "ISO-8859-1" or "UTF-8"

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

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