javascript Global escape( )

Returns a URL-encoded version of the string passed as a parameter to the function. URL encoding converts most nonalphanumeric characters (except * _ + - . / and, in IE, @) to hexadecimal values (such as %20 for the space character). URL-encoded strings do not normally encode the plus symbol because those symbols are used to separate components of search strings. If you must have the plus symbol encoded as well, Navigator 4 (only) offers a second parameter (a numeral 1) to turn on that switch for the method. Note that in IE 5.5 for Windows and Netscape 6, this method has been deprecated in favor of the encodeURI( ) and encodeURIComponent( ) methods. This method has been removed from the ECMA 3 specification.