Angular url plus sign converting to space

Question

I have angular application where i want to pass plus sign + in query string like:

http://localhost:3000/page?name=xyz+manwal

Answer 1

This ia a common problem. The + character is used by the URL to separate two words. In order to use the + character in the parameter values, you need to encode your parameter values before adding them as part of the URL. Javascript / TypeScript provide a encodeURI() function for that specific purpose.

URL encoding converts characters into a format that can be transmitted over the Internet. [w3Schools Reference]

Here is how you can fix this problem:

let encodedName = encodeURI('xyz+manwal');
let encodedURI = 'http://localhost:3000/page?name='+encodedName;

//.. OR using string interpolation
let encodedURI = `http://localhost:3000/page?name=${ encodedName }`;

In the same way, you can decode the parameters using decodeURI() method.

let decodedValue = decodeURI(encodedValue);