How can you encode a string to Base64 in JavaScript?

I have a PHP script that can encode a PNG image to a Base64 string.

I'd like to do the same thing using JavaScript. I know how to open files, but I'm not sure how to do the encoding? I'm not used to working with binary data.


You can use btoa() and atob() to convert to and from base64 encoding.

There appears to be some confusion in the comments regarding what these functions accept/return, so…

  • btoa() accepts a “string” where each character represents an 8-bit byte – if you pass a string containing characters that can't be represented in 8 bits, it will probably break. This isn't a problem if you're actually treating the string as a byte array, but if you're trying to do something else then you'll have to encode it first.

  • atob() returns a “string” where each character represents an 8-bit byte – that is, its value will be between 0 and 0xff . This does not mean it's ASCII – presumably if you're using this function at all, you expect to be working with binary data and not text.

  • See also:

  • How do I load binary image data using Javascript and XMLHttpRequest?

  • From here:

    /**
    *
    *  Base64 encode / decode
    *  http://www.webtoolkit.info/
    *
    **/
    var Base64 = {
    
    // private property
    _keyStr : "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=",
    
    // public method for encoding
    encode : function (input) {
        var output = "";
        var chr1, chr2, chr3, enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
        var i = 0;
    
        input = Base64._utf8_encode(input);
    
        while (i < input.length) {
    
            chr1 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
            chr2 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
            chr3 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
    
            enc1 = chr1 >> 2;
            enc2 = ((chr1 & 3) << 4) | (chr2 >> 4);
            enc3 = ((chr2 & 15) << 2) | (chr3 >> 6);
            enc4 = chr3 & 63;
    
            if (isNaN(chr2)) {
                enc3 = enc4 = 64;
            } else if (isNaN(chr3)) {
                enc4 = 64;
            }
    
            output = output +
            this._keyStr.charAt(enc1) + this._keyStr.charAt(enc2) +
            this._keyStr.charAt(enc3) + this._keyStr.charAt(enc4);
    
        }
    
        return output;
    },
    
    // public method for decoding
    decode : function (input) {
        var output = "";
        var chr1, chr2, chr3;
        var enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
        var i = 0;
    
        input = input.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9+/=]/g, "");
    
        while (i < input.length) {
    
            enc1 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
            enc2 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
            enc3 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
            enc4 = this._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
    
            chr1 = (enc1 << 2) | (enc2 >> 4);
            chr2 = ((enc2 & 15) << 4) | (enc3 >> 2);
            chr3 = ((enc3 & 3) << 6) | enc4;
    
            output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr1);
    
            if (enc3 != 64) {
                output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr2);
            }
            if (enc4 != 64) {
                output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr3);
            }
    
        }
    
        output = Base64._utf8_decode(output);
    
        return output;
    
    },
    
    // private method for UTF-8 encoding
    _utf8_encode : function (string) {
        string = string.replace(/rn/g,"n");
        var utftext = "";
    
        for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {
    
            var c = string.charCodeAt(n);
    
            if (c < 128) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
            }
            else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }
            else {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }
    
        }
    
        return utftext;
    },
    
    // private method for UTF-8 decoding
    _utf8_decode : function (utftext) {
        var string = "";
        var i = 0;
        var c = c1 = c2 = 0;
    
        while ( i < utftext.length ) {
    
            c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);
    
            if (c < 128) {
                string += String.fromCharCode(c);
                i++;
            }
            else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
                i += 2;
            }
            else {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
                i += 3;
            }
    
        }
    
        return string;
    }
    
    }
    

    Also, search on "javascript base64 encoding" turns a lot of other options, the above was the first one.


    Sunny's code is great except it breaks in IE7 because of references to "this". Fixed by replacing such references with "Base64":

    var Base64 = {
    // private property
    _keyStr : "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=",
    
    // public method for encoding
    encode : function (input) {
        var output = "";
        var chr1, chr2, chr3, enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
        var i = 0;
    
        input = Base64._utf8_encode(input);
    
        while (i < input.length) {
    
            chr1 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
            chr2 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
            chr3 = input.charCodeAt(i++);
    
            enc1 = chr1 >> 2;
            enc2 = ((chr1 & 3) << 4) | (chr2 >> 4);
            enc3 = ((chr2 & 15) << 2) | (chr3 >> 6);
            enc4 = chr3 & 63;
    
            if (isNaN(chr2)) {
                enc3 = enc4 = 64;
            } else if (isNaN(chr3)) {
                enc4 = 64;
            }
    
            output = output +
            Base64._keyStr.charAt(enc1) + Base64._keyStr.charAt(enc2) +
            Base64._keyStr.charAt(enc3) + Base64._keyStr.charAt(enc4);
    
        }
    
        return output;
    },
    
    // public method for decoding
    decode : function (input) {
        var output = "";
        var chr1, chr2, chr3;
        var enc1, enc2, enc3, enc4;
        var i = 0;
    
        input = input.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9+/=]/g, "");
    
        while (i < input.length) {
    
            enc1 = Base64._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
            enc2 = Base64._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
            enc3 = Base64._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
            enc4 = Base64._keyStr.indexOf(input.charAt(i++));
    
            chr1 = (enc1 << 2) | (enc2 >> 4);
            chr2 = ((enc2 & 15) << 4) | (enc3 >> 2);
            chr3 = ((enc3 & 3) << 6) | enc4;
    
            output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr1);
    
            if (enc3 != 64) {
                output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr2);
            }
            if (enc4 != 64) {
                output = output + String.fromCharCode(chr3);
            }
    
        }
    
        output = Base64._utf8_decode(output);
    
        return output;
    
    },
    
    // private method for UTF-8 encoding
    _utf8_encode : function (string) {
        string = string.replace(/rn/g,"n");
        var utftext = "";
    
        for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {
    
            var c = string.charCodeAt(n);
    
            if (c < 128) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
            }
            else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }
            else {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }
    
        }
    
        return utftext;
    },
    
    // private method for UTF-8 decoding
    _utf8_decode : function (utftext) {
        var string = "";
        var i = 0;
        var c = c1 = c2 = 0;
    
        while ( i < utftext.length ) {
    
            c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);
    
            if (c < 128) {
                string += String.fromCharCode(c);
                i++;
            }
            else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
                i += 2;
            }
            else {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
                i += 3;
            }
    
        }
        return string;
    }
    }
    
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