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title: AbstractRange.startContainer
slug: Web/API/AbstractRange/startContainer
page-type: web-api-instance-property
browser-compat: api.AbstractRange.startContainer

---

{{APIRef("DOM")}}

The read-only startContainer property of the {{domxref("AbstractRange")}} interface returns the start {{domxref("Node")}} for the range.

Value

The {{domxref("Node")}} inside which the start position of the range is found.

Example

let startNode = range.startContainer;

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}