Is the doctype part of the DOM, and if so, is there a good cross-browser way to read it? I\'m not trying to do anything fancy. I just want to access the doctype informatio
If you're inspecting the DOCTYPE to determine if you're in quirksmode or not, this is known to be cross-browser:
document.compatMode; // returns either "BackCompat" or "CSS1Compat"
So you can do:
var quirksmode = document.compatMode == "BackCompat";
document.doctype seems to be the (read-only) property you're looking for.