HTML DOM Document documentElement
Example
Get the name of the document element node:
document.documentElement.nodeName;
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Description
The documentElement property returns a document's element (as an Element object).
The documentElement is read-only.
For HTML documents the returned object is the <html> element.
Note
The difference between document.body and document.documentElement:
document.body returns the <body> element
document.documentElement returns the <html> element.
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Syntax
document.documentElement
Return Value
| Type | Description |
| Object | The document's Element Object |
Browser Support
document.documentElement() is a DOM Level 1 (1998) feature.
It is fully supported in all browsers:
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Safari | Opera | IE |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9-11 |
