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