javascript - escaping special character in a url

Question

I am using a url to open a html page, and i am sending data in querystring withe the page url.

For example: abc.html?firstParameter=firstvalue&seconedParameter=seconedvalue

Problem is that if firstvalue or secondvalue in parameter contains special character like #,(,),%,{, then my url is not constructing well. In this case url is not validating. I am doing all this in javascript. Can any body please help me out this.

Answer 1

You have 3 options:

escape() will not encode: @*/+

encodeURI() will not encode: ~!@#$&*()=:/,;?+'

encodeURIComponent() will not encode: ~!*()'

But in your case, if you want to pass a url into a GET parameter of other page, you should use escape or encodeURIComponent, but not encodeURI.