Javascript DOM HTML Script charset Property get

Introduction

Get the character set used in an external script file: 

var x = document.getElementById("myScript").charset

Click the button to return the charset attribute of the script.

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<script id="myScript" src="javascript.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>
<button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button>

<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
function myFunction() {//w ww  .  j a  va  2s . co  m
  var x = document.getElementById("myScript").charset;
  document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x;
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

The charset property sets or gets the charset attribute of a script.

The charset attribute sets the character encoding for an external script file.

The charset attribute is only for external scripts.

Some common values:

Charset Meaning
"ISO-8859-1"Standard encoding for the Latin alphabet
"UTF-8" Character encoding for Unicode.

The charset attribute returns a String representing the charset of the external script file.




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