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TextEncoderStream: TextEncoderStream() constructor

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 TextEncoderStream() constructor creates a new TextEncoderStream object which is used to convert a stream of strings into bytes using UTF-8 encoding.

Syntax

new TextEncoderStream()

Parameters

None.

Examples

In this example a TextEncoderStream is created and used to upload a stream of text.

const body = textStream.pipeThrough(new TextEncoderStream());
fetch("/dest", {
  method: "POST",
  body,
  headers: { "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=UTF-8" },
});

Specifications

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
TextEncoderStream 71 79 105 58 14.1 71 105 50 14.5 10.0 71 14.5

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