Document: defaultView 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.

In browsers, document.defaultView returns the window object associated with a document, or null if none is available.

This property is read-only.

Value

The window object.

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-document-defaultview-dev

Browser compatibility

desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
defaultView