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DocumentType: publicId property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The read-only publicId property of the DocumentType returns a formal identifier of the document.

For synthetic DocumentType, this property reflects the value given in parameter to DOMImplementation.createDocumentType().

Value

A string.

Examples

const docType = document.implementation.createDocumentType(
  "svg",
  "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN",
  "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg",
);

console.log(docType.publicId); // Displays "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
publicId 1 12 1 ≤12.1 3 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

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