Embedding JavaScript objects in a page's URL

Question

I\'m trying to store a JavaScript object in the URL of a web page (as a JSON string), but the URL contains some characters that will not work with HTML links.

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Answer 1

You can put a JSON string in an URL by URL-encoding it before putting it in the URL:

encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(object))

In your example, that would be:

http://jsfiddle.net/tsUpC/1/show/#%5B%22Hello%22%2C%22World!%22%5D

As you might guess, the opposite of encodeURIComponent is decodeURIComponent.