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  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Specifications
  • Browser compatibility
  1. Document Object Model (DOM)
  2. Document
  3. Constructor
    1. Document()
  4. Instance properties
    1. activeElement
    2. adoptedStyleSheets
    3. alinkColor Deprecated
    4. all Deprecated
    5. anchors Deprecated
    6. applets Deprecated
    7. bgColor Deprecated
    8. body
    9. characterSet
    10. childElementCount
    11. children
    12. compatMode
    13. contentType
    14. cookie
    15. currentScript
    16. defaultView
    17. designMode
    18. dir
    19. doctype
    20. documentElement
    21. documentURI
    22. domain Deprecated
    23. embeds
    24. featurePolicy Experimental
    25. fgColor Deprecated
    26. firstElementChild
    27. fonts
    28. forms
    29. fragmentDirective
    30. fullscreen Deprecated
    31. fullscreenElement
    32. fullscreenEnabled
    33. head
    34. hidden
    35. images
    36. implementation
    37. lastElementChild
    38. lastModified
    39. lastStyleSheetSet Non-standard Deprecated
    40. linkColor Deprecated
    41. links
    42. location
    43. pictureInPictureElement
    44. pictureInPictureEnabled
    45. plugins
    46. pointerLockElement
    47. preferredStyleSheetSet Non-standard Deprecated
    48. prerendering Experimental
    49. readyState
    50. referrer
    51. rootElement Deprecated
    52. scripts
    53. scrollingElement
    54. selectedStyleSheetSet Non-standard Deprecated
    55. styleSheets
    56. styleSheetSets Non-standard Deprecated
    57. timeline
    58. title
    59. URL
    60. visibilityState
    61. vlinkColor Deprecated
    62. xmlEncoding Deprecated
    63. xmlVersion Deprecated
  5. Static methods
    1. parseHTMLUnsafe()
  6. Instance methods
    1. adoptNode()
    2. append()
    3. browsingTopics() Experimental Non-standard
    4. caretPositionFromPoint()
    5. caretRangeFromPoint() Non-standard
    6. clear() Deprecated
    7. close()
    8. createAttribute()
    9. createAttributeNS()
    10. createCDATASection()
    11. createComment()
    12. createDocumentFragment()
    13. createElement()
    14. createElementNS()
    15. createEvent() Deprecated
    16. createExpression()
    17. createNodeIterator()
    18. createNSResolver() Deprecated
    19. createProcessingInstruction()
    20. createRange()
    21. createTextNode()
    22. createTouch() Non-standard Deprecated
    23. createTouchList() Non-standard Deprecated
    24. createTreeWalker()
    25. elementFromPoint()
    26. elementsFromPoint()
    27. enableStyleSheetsForSet() Non-standard Deprecated
    28. evaluate()
    29. execCommand() Deprecated
    30. exitFullscreen()
    31. exitPictureInPicture()
    32. exitPointerLock()
    33. getAnimations()
    34. getElementById()
    35. getElementsByClassName()
    36. getElementsByName()
    37. getElementsByTagName()
    38. getElementsByTagNameNS()
    39. getSelection()
    40. hasFocus()
    41. hasStorageAccess()
    42. hasUnpartitionedCookieAccess()
    43. importNode()
    44. moveBefore()
    45. mozSetImageElement() Non-standard
    46. open()
    47. prepend()
    48. queryCommandEnabled() Non-standard Deprecated
    49. queryCommandState() Non-standard Deprecated
    50. queryCommandSupported() Non-standard Deprecated
    51. querySelector()
    52. querySelectorAll()
    53. releaseCapture() Non-standard
    54. replaceChildren()
    55. requestStorageAccess()
    56. requestStorageAccessFor() Experimental
    57. startViewTransition()
    58. write() Deprecated
    59. writeln()
  7. Events
    1. afterscriptexecute Non-standard Deprecated
    2. beforescriptexecute Non-standard Deprecated
    3. copy
    4. cut
    5. DOMContentLoaded
    6. fullscreenchange
    7. fullscreenerror
    8. paste
    9. pointerlockchange
    10. pointerlockerror
    11. prerenderingchange Experimental
    12. readystatechange
    13. scroll
    14. scrollend
    15. scrollsnapchange Experimental
    16. scrollsnapchanging Experimental
    17. securitypolicyviolation
    18. selectionchange
    19. visibilitychange
  8. Inheritance
    1. Node
    2. EventTarget
  9. Related pages for DOM
    1. AbortController
    2. AbortSignal
    3. AbstractRange
    4. Attr
    5. CDATASection
    6. CharacterData
    7. Comment
    8. CustomEvent
    9. DOMError Deprecated
    10. DOMException
    11. DOMImplementation
    12. DOMParser
    13. DOMPoint
    14. DOMPointReadOnly
    15. DOMRect
    16. DOMTokenList
    17. DocumentFragment
    18. DocumentType
    19. Element
    20. Event
    21. EventTarget
    22. HTMLCollection
    23. MutationObserver
    24. MutationRecord
    25. NamedNodeMap
    26. Node
    27. NodeIterator
    28. NodeList
    29. ProcessingInstruction
    30. Range
    31. StaticRange
    32. Text
    33. TextDecoder
    34. TextEncoder
    35. TimeRanges
    36. TreeWalker
    37. XMLDocument

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  • Specifications
  • Browser compatibility

Document: close() method

The Document.close() method finishes writing to a document, opened with Document.open().

Syntax

js
close()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

js
// Open a document to write to it
document.open();

// Write the content of the document
document.write("<p>The one and only content.</p>");

// Close the document
document.close();

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-document-close-dev

Browser compatibility

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