History of decodeURIComponent() Revision history for: English (US) Oct 21, 2016, 5:08:36 AM fscholz Previous Oct 21, 2016, 5:07:52 AM fscholz note that it can throw an exception – bug 1303936 Previous Aug 17, 2016, 3:02:04 AM eduardoboucas Adjust wording of Return value Previous Jul 24, 2016, 3:59:22 PM eduardoboucas Adjust wording of Return value (consistent with other unescape methods) Previous Jul 24, 2016, 3:40:35 PM eduardoboucas Add "Return value" section as per Bug 1287421 Previous Jan 4, 2016, 6:40:11 AM fscholz add ES draft Previous Nov 21, 2015, 9:08:43 PM x2357 change "method" to "function" (for consistency) Previous Jul 6, 2015, 7:34:48 AM fscholz fix compat parsing error; cleanup Previous Nov 18, 2014, 10:08:40 AM fscholz Previous Jan 1, 2014, 12:01:56 PM thomasj Even if the "decodeURI" function could be used, i think that "decodeURIComponent" is more appropriate in this article.