Hyperlinks and querystrings may contain special characters that you wish to use. These can be placed in a link on HTML pages with special encoding.

In Microsoft ASP this can be established with:

<%
Server.URLencode("String") 'for querystrings
Server.URLpathencode("String") 'for filenames
%>

In PHP you can do the same by using the following syntax which is the server.URLencode and Server.URLpathencode equivalent:

<?
urlencode("String"); //for querystrings
rawurlencode("String"); //for filenames
?>  

If you are not using server-sided code on your website you can use the following tool which converts any given text to its URLencoded (or URLpathencoded) equivalent. The tool produces hyperlinks or querystring variables which you can easily copy and paste to your own web pages.

Enter the characters you wish to URLencode below: