AbstractRange: startContainer property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

The read-only startContainer property of the AbstractRange interface returns the start Node for the range.

The Node inside which the start position of the range is found.

let startNode = range.startContainer;

Specification
DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-range-startcontainer①

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