JavaScript 1.5; JScript 5.5; ECMAScript v3
s
A string that contains a portion of a URI or other text to be encoded.
A copy of s, with certain characters replaced by hexadecimal escape sequences.
URIError
Indicates that s contains malformed Unicode surrogate pairs and cannot be encoded.
encodeURIComponent( ) is a global function that returns an encoded copy of its s argument. ASCII letters and digits are not encoded, nor are the following ASCII punctuation characters:
- _ . ! ~ * ' ( )
All other characters, including punctuation characters such as /, :, # that serve to separate the various components of a URI, are replaced with one or more hexadecimal escape sequences. See encodeURI( ) for a description of the encoding scheme used.
Note the difference between encodeURIComponent( ) and encodeURI( ): encodeURIComponent( ) assumes that its argument is a portion (such as the protocol, hostname, path, or query string) of a URI. Therefore it escapes the punctuation characters that are used to separate the portions of a URI.
encodeURIComponent("hello world?"); // Returns hello%20world%3F
decodeURI( ), decodeURIComponent( ), encodeURI( ), escape( ), unescape( )