Difference between encodeURI and encodeURIComponent in javascript
by Guna[ Edit ] 2014-05-20 15:26:31
You can use encodeURI function to encode a url
: http://www.google.com/so many spaces.html
encodeURI will encode this as,
http://www.google.com/so%20many%20spaces.html
You have another option to encode an url, i.e.
encodeURIComponent. But, this will encode above url as,
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fso%20many%20spaces.html
encodeURIComponent function will comes handy when we need to encode a full url that is going
to be sent as parameter, ex:
param1 = encodeURIComponent("http://xyz.com/?a=12&b=55");
url = "http://domain.com/?param1=" + param1 + "param2=99";
http://www.domain.com/?param1=http%3A%2F%2Fxyz.com%2F%Ffa%3D12%26b%3D55¶m2=99
