Availability

JavaScript 1.5; JScript 5.5; ECMAScript v3 Inherits from Error

Constructor

new URIError(  )
new URIError(message)

Arguments

message

An optional error message that provides details about the exception. If specified, this argument is used as the value for the message property of the URIError object.

Returns

A newly constructed URIError object. If the message argument is specified, the Error object will use it as the value of its message property; otherwise, it will use an implementation-defined default string as the value of that property. When the URIError( ) constructor is called as a function without the new operator, it behaves just as it does when called with the new operator.

Properties

message

An error message that provides details about the exception. This property holds the string passed to the constructor, or an implementation-defined default string. See Error.message for details.

name

A string that specifies the type of the exception. All URIError objects inherit the value "URIError" for this property.

Description

An instance of the URIError class is thrown by decodeURI( ) and decodeURIComponent( ) if the specified string contains illegal hexadecimal escapes. It can also be thrown by encodeURI( ) and encodeURIComponent( ) if the specified string contains illegal Unicode surrogate pairs. See Error for details about throwing and catching exceptions.

See Also

Error, Error.message, Error.name