The
atob()
method of the
Window
interface decodes a
string of data which has been encoded using
Base64
encoding. You can use
the
Window.btoa()
method to encode and transmit
data which may otherwise cause communication problems, then transmit it and use the
atob()
method to decode the data again. For example, you can encode,
transmit, and decode control characters such as
ASCII
values 0 through 31.
Also consider using the
Uint8Array.fromBase64()
method, which creates a
Uint8Array
object from a base64-encoded string. It results in a byte array, which is easier to work with than a string containing raw bytes.
A binary string containing raw bytes decoded from
encodedData
. Strings in JavaScript are encoded as
UTF-16
, so this means each character must have a code point less than 256, representing one byte of data.
InvalidCharacterError
DOMException
Thrown if
encodedData
is not valid base64.