TextDecoder: encoding property

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 TextDecoder.encoding read-only property returns a string containing the name of the decoding algorithm used by the specific decoder object.

The encoding is set by the constructor label parameter, and defaults to utf-8.

Value

A lower-cased ASCII string, which can be one of the following values:

Specifications

Specification
Encoding
# ref-for-dom-textdecoder-encoding①

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobileserver
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
Node.js
encoding

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