TextEncoder: encode() method

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.encode() method takes a string as input, and returns a Uint8Array containing the text given in parameters encoded with the specific method for that TextEncoder object.

Syntax

encode(string)

Parameters

string: A string containing the text to encode.

Return value

A Uint8Array object.

Examples

html

<p class="source">This is a sample paragraph.</p>
<p class="result">Encoded result:</p>

const sourcePara = document.querySelector(".source");
const resultPara = document.querySelector(".result");
const string = sourcePara.textContent;

const textEncoder = new TextEncoder();

let encoded = textEncoder.encode(string);
resultPara.textContent += encoded;

Specifications

Specification
Encoding # ref-for-dom-textencoder-encode①