The Location.hash property is also percent-encoded

[yin1999]

MDN URL

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

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

The description at the top of the document

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The hash property is also percent-encoded, try to navigate to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/hash#%3E, and see the return value of location.hash, it would be #%3E, which is encoded.

What did you expect to see?

Correct the description. The encoding rule is given in the spec.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

See the spec:

• https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#string-percent-decode
• https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#fragment-percent-encode-set

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

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Page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/api/location/hash
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/hash
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/api/location/hash/index.md
• Last commit: a2847ff
• Document last modified: 2024-07-18T19:25:04.000Z

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#37002