Name
decodeURIComponent() — unescape characters in a URI component
Synopsis
decodeURI(s)
Arguments
sA 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
URIErrorIndicates 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()
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