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DocumentType: publicId property

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().

For HTML documents, browsers always set it up to html, whatever the actual DOCTYPE in the source code is. For SVG documents, for example, it can be "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN".

Value

A string.

Examples

js

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 Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
publicId 1 12 1 9 ≤12.1 3 4.4 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DocumentType/publicId