Used to escape characters in a string reserved for URLs.
As a rule of thumb,
encodeURIComponentis used to encode parts of a URL (for example, a query string parameter).encodeURIis used to encode an entire URL.
encodeURI does not encode characters that have a special meaning for a URI.
encodeURIComponent escapes all characters except: A-Z a-z 0-9 - _ . ! ~ * ' ( ).
Examples
| String | encodeURI | encodeURIComponent |
|---|---|---|
https://www.google.com |
https://www.google.com |
https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com |
https://www.myserver.com/page=a new dream.html |
https://www.myserver.com/page=a%20new%20dream.html |
https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myserver.com%2Fpage%3Da%20new%20dream.html |
123.com/abc#def |
123.com/abc#def |
123.com%2Fabc%23def |