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 string encoded using UTF-8.

Syntax

encode(string)

Parameters

string: A string containing the text to encode.

Return value

A Uint8Array object containing the UTF-8 encoding of the input string.

Examples

html

<p class="source">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();  const encoded = textEncoder.encode(string); resultPara.textContent = `${resultPara.textContent} ${encoded}`;