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Range: startContainer 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 Range.startContainer read-only property returns the Node within which the Range starts. To change the start position of a node, use one of the Range.setStart() methods.

Value

A Node object.

Examples

range = document.createRange();
range.setStart(startNode, startOffset);
range.setEnd(endNode, endOffset);
startRangeNode = range.startContainer;

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
startContainer 1 12 1 9 1 18 4 10.1 1 1.0 4.4 1

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Range/startContainer