HTML DOM characterSet Property

HTML DOM Document Object

characterSetA read-only property that returns the character encoding of the document.

Character encoding is a set of characters and how bytes are interpreted as these characters.

The properties document.charset and document.inputEncoding are old aliases of document.characterSet. They are no longer used.

Syntax:

document.characterSet

<button onclick="alert(document.characterSet);">Show Character Encoding</button>

Browser Compatibility

The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the characterSet property:

Technical Details

HTML DOM Document Object