Base64 encoding and decoding
Widely available since 2018-01-29
The atob()
and btoa()
global functions encode and decode strings to and from base 64, respectively.
Learning resources on MDN
Browser support (view on caniuse.com)
- Chrome 4 Released on 2010-01-25
- Chrome Android 18 Released on 2012-06-27
- Edge 12 Released on 2015-07-29
- Firefox 1 Released on 2004-11-09
- Firefox for Android 4 Released on 2011-03-29
- Safari 3 Released on 2007-10-26
- Safari on iOS 1 Released on 2007-06-29
Specifications
- HTML Standard (#atob), from HTML Workstream (WHATWG).