TextDecoderStream

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The TextDecoderStream interface of the Encoding API converts a stream of text in a binary encoding, such as UTF-8 etc., to a stream of strings. It is the streaming equivalent of TextDecoder.

Constructor

TextDecoderStream(): Creates a new TextDecoderStream object.

Instance properties

TextDecoderStream.encoding Read only: An encoding.
TextDecoderStream.fatal Read only: A boolean indicating if the error mode is fatal.
TextDecoderStream.ignoreBOM Read only: A boolean indicating whether the byte order mark is ignored.
TextDecoderStream.readable Read only: Returns the ReadableStream instance controlled by this object.
TextDecoderStream.writable Read only: Returns the WritableStream instance controlled by this object.

Examples

Examples of streaming structured data and HTML
An example of fetch request streams which uses TextDecoderStream.

Specifications

Specification
Encoding Standard # interface-textdecoderstream

Browser compatibility

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