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URL Encoding Explained: encodeURIComponent vs encodeURI (and a Free Online Tool)
Every developer building URLs from user input eventually meets percent-encoding: spaces become %20 , ampersands become %26 , and so on. JavaScript gives you two built-in functions for this — encodeURIComponent and encodeURI — and mixing them up is one of the most common sources of broken links and…