Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

charset — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read/Write

Character encoding of the content in the file associated with the href attribute. This property does not change the setting of the CHARSET attribute of a name/value pair contained by the CONTENT attribute or property. For now the charset property has little or no effect on a document.

Example

if (document.all.myMeta.charset == "csISO5427Cyrillic") {
    process for Cyrillic charset
}

Value

Case-insensitive alias from the character set registry (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets).

Default

Determined by browser.