HTML DOM Document documentElement

Get the name of the document element node:

document.documentElement.nodeName;

Description

The documentElement property returns a document's element (as an Element object).

The documentElement is read-only.

For HTML documents the returned object is the <html> element.

The difference between document.body and document.documentElement:

document.body returns the <body> element
document.documentElement returns the <html> element.

document.documentElement

Type	Description
Object	The document's Element Object

document.documentElement() is a DOM Level 1 (1998) feature.

It is fully supported in all browsers:


Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	Opera	IE
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	9-11