TextDecoder: 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 TextDecoder.encoding read-only property returns a string containing the name of the character encoding that this decoder will use.

The encoding is set by the label parameter passed to the constructor, and defaults to utf-8.

Value

A lower-cased ASCII string, which can be one of the following values:

Specifications

Specification
Encoding
# ref-for-dom-textdecoder-encoding①

Browser compatibility

See also