TextEncoderStream: TextEncoderStream() constructor

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2022.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The TextEncoderStream() constructor creates a new TextEncoderStream object which is used to convert a stream of strings into bytes using UTF-8 encoding.

Syntax

js
new TextEncoderStream()

Parameters

None.

Examples

In this example a TextEncoderStream is created and used to upload a stream of text.

js
const body = textStream.pipeThrough(new TextEncoderStream());
fetch("/dest", {
  method: "POST",
  body,
  headers: { "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=UTF-8" },
});

Specifications

Specification
Encoding
# ref-for-dom-textencoderstream①

Browser compatibility