JavaScript Global method: escape()
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The JavaScript
Global
escape() 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 is depreciated,
and encodeURI
or encodeURIComponent
should be used instead.
It
has the following syntax with the following parameters:
escape(URI)
|
Parameter
|
Required / Optional
|
Description
|
|
URI
|
Required
|
String representing URI to be
encoded
|
More details on URI
encoding is given here.
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