HTML DOM Document lastModified
Examples
Get the date and time the document was last modified:
let text = document.lastModified;
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Convert the lastModified property into a date object:
const date = new Date(document.lastModified);
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Description
The lastModified property returns the date and time the document was last modified.
The lastModified property is read-only.
Warning!
The "Try it Yourself" examples always return the current date/time because the document was created at run time.
Syntax
document.lastModified
Return Value
| Type | Description |
| String | The date and time the document was last modified. |
Browser Support
document.lastModified is a DOM Level 3 (2004) feature.
It is fully supported in all modern browsers:
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Safari | Opera | IE |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 11 |
