Availability
JavaScript 1.5; JScript 5.5; ECMAScript v3
Synopsis
decodeURI( uri)Arguments
uri
A string that contains an encoded URI or other text to be decoded.
Returns
A copy of uri, with any hexadecimal escape
sequences replaced with the characters they represent.
Throws
URIError
Indicates that one or more of the escape sequences in
uri is malformed and cannot be correctly
decoded.
Description
decodeURI( ) is a global function that returns a
decoded copy of its uri argument. It
reverses the encoding performed by encodeURI( );
see that function for details.
See Also
decodeURIComponent( ), encodeURI( ), encodeURIComponent( ), escape( ), unescape( )