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JavaScript Global method: encodeURIComponent()

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The JavaScript Global encodeURIComponent() method encodes a string representing a URI by replacing certain characters by one, two, three or (rarely) four escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character.

 

It has the following syntax with the following parameters:

 

encodeURIComponent(URI)

 

Parameter

Required / Optional

Description

URI

Required

String representing URI to be encoded

 

More detail on URI encoding is given here.

 


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