Determine if string is in base64 using JavaScript

Question

I\'m using the window.atob(\'string\') function to decode a string from base64 to a string. Now I wonder, is there any way to check that \'string\' is actually

Answer 1

This should do the trick.

function isBase64(str) {
    if (str ==='' || str.trim() ===''){ return false; }
    try {
        return btoa(atob(str)) == str;
    } catch (err) {
        return false;
    }
}