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charset Example JavaScript (JS)

Description: Illustrates the JavaScript syntax for the Anchor Object charset Property .

Syntax: object.charset=charset – Allows you to retrieve or assign charset for an element.

charset Example JavaScript (JS) Code:

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 
<html>
  <head>
    <title>IdealProgrammer.com: charset </title>
    <!-- 
    ***************************************************
    * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
    ***************************************************
    The following table defines the list of possible values for the character set codes.
 
 
Code Value (Codepage) Alphabet 
DIN_66003 20106 IA5 (German) 
NS_4551-1 20108 IA5 (Norwegian) 
SEN_850200_B 20107 IA5 (Swedish) 
_autodetect 50932 Japanese (Auto Select) 
_autodetect_kr 50949 Korean (Auto Select) 
big5 950 Chinese Traditional (Big5) 
csISO2022JP 50221 Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) 
euc-kr 51949 Korean (EUC) 
gb2312 936 Chinese Simplified (GB2312) 
hz-gb-2312 52936 Chinese Simplified (HZ) 
ibm852 852 Central European (DOS) 
ibm866 866 Cyrillic Alphabet (DOS) 
irv 20105 IA5 (IRV) 
iso-2022-jp 50220 Japanese (JIS) 
iso-2022-jp 50222 Japanese (JIS-Allow 1 byte Kana) 
iso-2022-kr 50225 Korean (ISO) 
iso-8859-1 1252 Western Alphabet 
iso-8859-1 28591 Western Alphabet (ISO) 
iso-8859-2 28592 Central European Alphabet (ISO) 
iso-8859-3 28593 Latin 3 Alphabet (ISO) 
iso-8859-4 28594 Baltic Alphabet (ISO) 
iso-8859-5 28595 Cyrillic Alphabet (ISO) 
iso-8859-6 28596 Arabic Alphabet (ISO) 
iso-8859-7 28597 Greek Alphabet (ISO) 
iso-8859-8 28598 Hebrew Alphabet (ISO) 
koi8-r 20866 Cyrillic Alphabet (KOI8-R) 
ks_c_5601 949 Korean 
shift-jis 932 Japanese (Shift-JIS) 
unicode 1200 Universal Alphabet 
unicodeFEFF 1201 Universal Alphabet (Big-Endian) 
utf-7 65000 Universal Alphabet (UTF-7) 
utf-8 65001 Universal Alphabet (UTF-8) 
windows-1250 1250 Central European Alphabet (Windows) 
windows-1251 1251 Cyrillic Alphabet (Windows) 
windows-1252 1252 Western Alphabet (Windows) 
windows-1253 1253 Greek Alphabet (Windows) 
windows-1254 1254 Turkish Alphabet 
windows-1255 1255 Hebrew Alphabet (Windows) 
windows-1256 1256 Arabic Alphabet (Windows) 
windows-1257 1257 Baltic Alphabet (Windows) 
windows-1258 1258 Vietnamese Alphabet (Windows) 
windows-874 874 Thai (Windows) 
x-euc 51932 Japanese (EUC) 
x-user-defined 50000 User Defined 
 
    -->
 
 
 
   </head>
  <body>
      <input id="Button1" type="button" charset="windows-1253" value="Button1" /><br /><br />
      <input id="Button2" type="button" charset="iso-8859-1" value="Button2" /><br /><br />
      <input id="Button3" type="button" charset="gb2312" value="Button3" /><br /><br />
   <script type="text/javascript">
       //*****************************************************
       // DOM Objects
       //*****************************************************
 
 
       //*****************************************************
       //    ***    Anchor Object Properties   ***
       //*****************************************************
 
       //*****************************************************
       // charset
       //*****************************************************
 
       //    SYNTAX:
       //    object.charset=charset  Allows you to retrieve or assign  
       //               charset to an element
 
       // Two ways to retrieve charset   
       //   1. GetElementsByTagName
            myObject=document.getElementsByTagName('input')[0];
            document.write("Button1 - Using getElementsByTagName : " + myObject.charset);
            document.write("<br />");
      //   2. GetElementById
            document.write("Button1 - Using getElementById: ");
            document.write(document.getElementById('Button1').charset);
 
            document.write("<br /><br />");
       // Two ways to assign charset
 
            //   1. GetElementById
            mySecondButton = document.getElementById('Button2');
            mySecondButton.charset = "utf-7";
            document.write("<br />Button2 charset changed to utf-7: ", mySecondButton.charset);
 
       //   2. GetElementsByTagName      
            myThirdButton = document.getElementsByTagName('input')[2];
            myThirdButton.charset = "windows-874";
            document.write("<br />Button3 charset changed to windows-874: ", myThirdButton.charset)
 
</script>
 
  </body>
</html>