@charset

Summary

Specifies the character encoding of the style sheet.

Examples

Set the character encoding of the style sheet to Unicode UTF-8 (recommended)

@charset "UTF-8";

Set the character encoding of the style sheet to Cyrillic (Windows 1251)

@charset "Windows-1251";

Notes

Remarks

You can use only one @charset rule in an external style sheet. The rule must appear at the top of the file, cannot be preceded by any characters, and cannot be included in an embedded style sheet.

The rule has no default value.

Syntax

@charset CharSet-Description

Parameters

CharSet-Description

String that specifies the name of the character encoding.

Standards information

• CSS 2.1, Section 4.4

Related specifications

Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1)

Recommendation

See also

Related articles

Syntax

• @charset

• @font-face

• @import

• @keyframes

• @namespace

• @page

• @supports

• CSS reference

• Alphabetical list of CSS reference

• !important

Attributions

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]