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TextDecoderStream

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨September 2022⁩.

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

Specifications

Specification
Encoding>
# interface-textdecoderstream>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
TextDecoderStream 71 79 105 58 14.1 71 105 50 14.5 10.0 71 14.5
TextDecoderStream 71 79 105 58 14.1 71 105 50 14.5 10.0 71 14.5
encoding 71 79 105 58 14.1 71 105 50 14.5 10.0 71 14.5
fatal 71 79 105 58 14.1 71 105 50 14.5 10.0 71 14.5
ignoreBOM 71 79 105 58 14.1 71 105 50 14.5 10.0 71 14.5
readable 71 79 105 58 14.1 71 105 50 14.5 10.0 71 14.5
writable 71 79 105 58 14.1 71 105 50 14.5 10.0 71 14.5

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextDecoderStream