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