HTML DOM Script src attribute

Get an external script files referenced character sets:

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

x The output is:

UTF-8

Definition and Usage

charset attribute specifies the character encoding for use in external script file.

When an external script file character encoding and HTML document coding is not the same, it will use charset attribute.

Note: charset attribute applies only to external script (only when using the src attribute).

Attributes
charset	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Returns the charset attribute:

scriptObject.charset

Set the charset attribute:

scriptObject.charset=charset

value	description
charset	The character encoding specified external script file. Some common values: "ISO-8859-1" - standard encoding of the Latin alphabet "UTF-8" - Unicode character encoding. Compatible with ASCII See our character set reference manual for a complete list of character sets.

value

description

charset

The character encoding specified external script file.

Some common values:

See our character set reference manual for a complete list of character sets.

return value:	String, returns the character set to use an external script file.