TextEncoder: TextEncoder() constructor

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() constructor returns a newly created TextEncoder object that will generate a byte stream with UTF-8 encoding.

Syntax

js
new TextEncoder()

Parameters

None.

Specifications

Specification
Encoding Standard
# ref-for-dom-textencoder①

Browser compatibility

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See also