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

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

Browser compatibility