A system and method for displaying document content using Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is provided. A media server provides meta information corresponding to the document content to a control point if a user request for displaying the document content is received, the control point provides the meta information of the document content to a media renderer that can display the requested document content together with an operation performance command for displaying the requested document content, and the media renderer receives the document content from the media server and renders the document content in accordance with the operation performance command to display the document content on a screen.