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JS Escape / Unescape

Escape special characters in a string for use in JavaScript, or turn escape sequences back into plain text.

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JS Escape / Unescape

Safely escape or unescape special characters for JavaScript strings

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About the JS Escape / Unescape

        
Escape special characters in a string for use in JavaScript, or turn escape sequences back into plain text.

    
            
How to use the JS Escape / Unescape

        
    
                            
  1. Paste your code into the input box, or click Sample to load an example.
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  2. Choose the Action: Escape or Unescape.
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  3. Choose the Encoding Type: standard (\n, \t, \"), hexadecimal (\xHH) or Unicode (\uHHHH).
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  4. Press Transform String.
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  5. Use Copy (or Download where shown) to keep the result. Clear empties the box.
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Worked example

        
A tab character becomes \t and a double quote becomes \" when escaped.

    
    
    
            
Tips

        
    
                            
  • Escaping prevents quotes and line breaks from breaking a string literal.
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Frequently asked questions

                                                            

                                                            

                                    When do I need to escape a string?
                                    
When it contains quotes, backslashes or line breaks that would otherwise end the string early.