TextEncoder: 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 TextEncoder.encoding
read-only property returns a string containing the name of the encoding algorithm used by the specific encoder.
It can only have the following value utf-8
.
Value
A string with the value utf-8
.
Specifications
Specification |
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Encoding # dom-textencoder-encoding |
Browser compatibility
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See also
- The
TextEncoder
interface it belongs to.