JavaScript encodeURIComponent With Backslash
This function encodes special characters. In addition, it encodes the following characters:
, / ? : @ & = + $ # .
This definition is vague as to what "special characters" are. It sounds like a comparison between encodeURI
and encodeURIComponent
. Both will correctly escape \
as %5C
, so you don't have to worry about backslashes.
encodeURI
will leave the listed characters as it is assumed that the entire URI is being encoded:
encodeURI('http://example.com/foo bar/baz.html');
//produces "http://example.com/foo%20bar/baz.html"
encodeURIComponent
will escape everything as it is assumed that the string is to be used as part of a query-string:
'http://example.com?foo=' + encodeURIComponent('http://example.com/fizz/buzz.html');
//produces "http://example.com?foo=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Ffizz%2Fbuzz.html"
Kevin Meredith
Scala developer Haskell student https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-meredith/11/22a/334
Updated on June 15, 2022Comments
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Kevin Meredith almost 2 years
w3schools says the following about
encodeURIComponent
function:This function encodes special characters. In addition, it encodes the following characters:
, / ? : @ & = + $ #
.Does that mean that it cannot encode a backslash (
\
)?