characterSet

Summary

Gets the preferred MIME name of the document’s character encoding.

Property of dom/Documentdom/Document

Syntax

Note: This property is read-only.

var result = element.characterSet;

Examples

//displays the document's character encoding string
function showCharSet() {
    alert(document.characterSet);
}

Syntax

Standards information

• HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Section 3.1.3

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]