document.characterSet

The Document.characterSet read-only property returns the character encoding of the current document. The character encoding is the character set used for rendering the document, which may be different from the encoding specified by the page. (The user can override the encoding.).

Syntax

var string = document.characterSet

Examples

<button onclick="console.log(document.characterSet);">
  Show character set
</button>
<!-- logs document's character set, such as "ISO-8859-1" or "UTF-8" -->

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
DOM The definition of 'characterSet' in that specification.	Living Standard	Initial definition.

Browser compatibility