Regarding Encoding the ~ charecter in javascript

Question

Hi to all,

can you please tell me the how can we encode the ~ character in javascript..

i am trying with the encodeURIComponet.but that character is not encoding...

and also , how can we encode < and > characters in javascript...

tx inadvance...

regards patel

Answer 1

Here's a URL encoding reference.

Answer 2

The reason encodeURIComponent isn't encoding them is that they don't need to be encoded in a URI.

You can use

escape('~ < > ');

if you really want to