Node: ownerDocument 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 ownerDocument property of the Node interface returns the top-level document object of the node.

Value

A Document that is the top-level object in which all the child nodes are created.

If this property is used on a node that is itself a document, the value is null.

Example

js
// Given a node "p", get the top-level HTML
// child of the document object

const d = p.ownerDocument;
const html = d.documentElement;

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# ref-for-dom-node-ownerdocument①

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
ownerDocument
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 1 (Release date: 2008-12-11)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox 1 – 8 (Release date: 2004-11-09)
footnote The ownerDocument of doctype nodes (that is, nodes for which Node.nodeType is Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE or 10) is null.
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 9 (Release date: 2011-12-20)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 12.1 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 1 (Release date: 2003-06-23)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 18 (Release date: 2012-06-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android 4 – 8 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote The ownerDocument of doctype nodes (that is, nodes for which Node.nodeType is Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE or 10) is null.
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 9 (Release date: 2011-12-21)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 12.1 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 1 (Release date: 2013-04-27)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 1 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Full support

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