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