HTML URL Encoding
URL encoding converts characters into a format that can be safely transmitted over the Internet.
URL - Universal Resource Locator
Web browsers request pages from web servers by using a URL.
The URL is the address of a web page like: http://www.w3schools.com.
URL Encoding
URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the
ASCII character-set.
Since URLs often contains characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted. URL encoding converts
the URL into a valid ASCII format.
URL encoding replaces unsafe ASCII characters with
"%" followed by two hexadecimal digits corresponding to the
character values in the ISO-8859-1 character-set.
URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a + sign.
Try It Yourself
If you click the "Submit" button below,
the browser will URL encode the input before it is sent to the server. A page at the
server will display the received input.
Try some other input and click Submit again.
URL Encoding Examples
| Character |
URL-encoding |
| € |
%80 |
| £ |
%A3 |
| © |
%A9 |
| ® |
%AE |
| À |
%C0 |
| Á |
%C1 |
| Â |
%C2 |
| Ã |
%C3 |
| Ä |
%C4 |
| Å |
%C5 |
For a complete reference of all URL encodings, visit our
URL Encoding Reference.
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