Availability

Navigator 2.0, Internet Explorer 3.0

Description

The unescape() function is a built-in part of JavaScript; it is not a method of any object.

unescape() decodes a string encoded with escape(). It creates and returns a decoded copy of s. It decodes s by finding and replacing character sequences of the form %xx, where xx is two hexadecimal digits. Each such sequence is replaced by the single character represented by the hexadecimal digits in the Latin-1 encoding.

Thus, unescape() decodes the string:

Hello%20World%21

to:

Hello World!

See escape() for more information on this encoding and decoding technique.

See Also

"escape()", "String"