javascript encodeURIComponent and converting spaces to + symbols

Question

I would like to encode my URL, but I want to convert spaces to plus symbols.

This is what I attempted to do...

var search = \"Testing this here &         


        

Answer 1

encodeURIComponent(search).replace(/%20/g, "+");

What you're doing wrong here is that first you convert spaces to pluses, but then encodeURIComponent converts pluses to "%2B".