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 s is 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( )