Name
decodeURI( ) — unescape characters in a URI
Availability
JavaScript 1.5; JScript 5.5; 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 function for details.
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