JavaScript 1.5; JScript 5.5; ECMAScript v3
uri
A string that contains an encoded URI or other text to be decoded.
A copy of uri, with any hexadecimal escape sequences replaced with the characters they represent.
URIError
Indicates that one or more of the escape sequences in uri is malformed and cannot be correctly decoded.
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.
decodeURIComponent( ), encodeURI( ), encodeURIComponent( ), escape( ), unescape( )