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HTML DOM inputEncoding Property

Document Object Reference Document Object

Example

Display the character encoding for this document:

var x = document.inputEncoding;

The result of x will be:

ISO-8859-1
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Definition and Usage

The inputEncoding property returns the character encoding for the document.

The inputEncoding property returns the character encoding at the time of parsing, and will return null if the document is created in memory.

Note: This property is read-only.


Browser Support

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

Property
inputEncoding Yes 9.0 Yes Yes 15.0

Syntax

document.inputEncoding

Technical Details

Return Value: A String, representing the document's character encoding
DOM Version Core Level 3 Document Object

Document Object Reference Document Object