encodeURIComponent(string)
Description
The encodeURIComponent() function encodes a URI by replacing each instance of certain characters by one, two, three, or four escape sequences representing the UTF-8 encoding of the character (will only be four escape sequences for characters composed of two surrogate characters).
Parameters
encodeURIComponent() requires a single string to be encoded.
Usage
// Define a string with special characters
urlString = "Hello World! How are you?"
// Use encodeURIComponent to encode the URL component
encodedString = encodeURIComponent(urlString)
// Log the result to the console
log encodedString
// Output: Hello%20World!%20How%20are%20you%Last updated
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