TextEncoderStream: 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 encoding read-only property of the TextEncoderStream interface returns a string containing the name of the encoding algorithm used by the current TextEncoderStream object.

Value

A string containing utf-8 encoded data.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to return encoding from a TextEncoderStream object.

js
const stream = new TextEncoderStream();
console.log(stream.encoding);

Specifications

Specification
Encoding
# dom-textencoder-encoding

Browser compatibility