TextEncoder: encode() method
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The TextEncoder.encode() method takes a string as input, and returns a Uint8Array containing the string encoded using UTF-8.
Syntax
js
encode(string) Parameters
string-
A string containing the text to encode.
Return value
A Uint8Array object containing the UTF-8 encoding of the input string.
Examples
html
<p class="source">Sample paragraph.</p> <p class="result">Encoded result:</p> js
const sourcePara = document.querySelector(".source"); const resultPara = document.querySelector(".result"); const string = sourcePara.textContent; const textEncoder = new TextEncoder(); const encoded = textEncoder.encode(string); resultPara.textContent = `${resultPara.textContent} ${encoded}`; Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Encoding> # ref-for-dom-textencoder-encode①> |
Browser compatibility
See also
- The
TextEncoderinterface it belongs to.