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TextEncoder: TextEncoder() constructor

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. Its been available across browsers since January 2020.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The TextEncoder() constructor returns a newly created TextEncoder object.

In this article

Syntax

js
new TextEncoder()

Parameters

None.

Specifications

Specification
Encoding
# ref-for-dom-textencoder

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  1. Encoding API
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  3. Constructor
    1. TextEncoder()
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    1. encode()
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  6. Related pages for Encoding API
    1. TextDecoder
    2. TextDecoderStream
    3. TextEncoderStream
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