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.

See Also

decodeURIComponent( ), encodeURI( ), encodeURIComponent( ), escape( ), unescape( )