Encode URL in JavaScript?

Question

How do you safely encode a URL using JavaScript such that it can be put into a GET string?

var myUrl = "http://example.com/index.html?param=1&anotherParam=2"; 

var myOtherUrl = "http://example.com/index.html?url=" + myUrl;

I assume that you need to encode the myUrl variable on that second line?

Answer 1

To check encode URL in JavaScript you can use the built-in function encode URIComponent(str) and encodeURI(str):-

Use the below-mentioned code:-

var myOtherUrl = "http://example.com/index.html?url=" + encodeURIComponent(myUrl);

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