JavaScript Document Object Properties

The document object provides various properties that are related to an HTML document such as title property, url property, etc.

The property is accessed by using the notation given here:

objectName.propertyName

Here, objectName is the name of the object and the propertyName is the name of its property. Both are case-sensitive.

The following table lists the properties of the Document object in JavaScript.

Property	Description
cookie	returns a report that contains all the visible and unexpired cookies associated with the document
domain	returns the domain name of the server from which the document has originated
lastModified	returns the date on which the document was last modified
documentMode	returns the mode used by the browser to process the document
readyState	returns the loading status of the document
referrer	returns the URL of all the documents referred to in an HTML document
title	returns the name of the HTML document defined between the starting and ending tags of the TITLE element
URL	returns the full URL of the HTML document

JavaScript Document Object Properties

Here is an example demonstrates document object properties in JavaScript:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
   <title>JavaScript Document Object Properties</title>
</head>
<body>

<h3>JavaScript Document Object Properties Example</h3>
<p>The URL of this document is:<br/>
<script type="text/javascript">
   document.write(document.URL);
</script></p>
<p>Loading status:<br/>
<script type="text/javascript">
   document.write(document.readyState);
</script></p>
<p>The title of this document is:<br/>
<script type="text/javascript">
   document.write(document.title);
</script></p>

</body>
</html>

Here is the sample output of the above JavaScript document object properties example:

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