Name
decodeURI( ): unescape characters in a URI â ECMAScript v3
Synopsis
decodeURI(uri
)
Arguments
-
uri
A string that contains an encoded URI or other text to be decoded.
Returns
A copy of uri
, with any
hexadecimal escape sequences replaced with the characters they
represent.
Throws
-
URIError
Indicates that one or more of the escape sequences in
uri
is malformed and cannot be correctly decoded.
Description
decodeURI( )
is a
global function that returns a decoded copy of its
uri
argument. It reverses the encoding
performed by encodeURI( )
; see
that functionâs reference page for details.
See Also
decodeURIComponent( )
,
encodeURI( )
, encodeURIComponent( )
, escape( )
, unescape( )
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