Name
decodeURIComponent( ) — unescape characters in a URI component
Availability
JavaScript 1.5; JScript 5.5; 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 function’s reference page for details.
See Also
decodeURI( ), encodeURI( ), encodeURIComponent( ), escape( ), unescape( )