Handlebars Helper Function: encodeURI

Converts a string to a format that is safe to use in a URL.

This function encodes an entire string. To encode only a query string that follows a URL, use encodeURIComponent.

This helper is available in the Winter ’27 release of Marketing Cloud Next.

Parameter	Type	Description
stringToEncode	String	Required. The string to encode.
onlySpaces	Boolean	If true, encodes spaces as %20 and ignores other characters. If false, encodes all characters that aren’t safe to use in URLs. The default value is false.

The function returns the URL-encoded string.

This example encodes a string of text so that it’s safe to include in a URL, converting all spaces and special characters.

The function returns this URL-encoded string:

• encodeURIcomponent