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%22 in a URL

The percent-encoded double quote (").

Short answer

%22 is the percent-encoded double quotation mark ("). Quotes are not allowed in URLs as-is and they break HTML attributes, so they appear encoded, most often in URLs that carry JSON or an exact-match search phrase.

Character
"
Percent-encoded
%22
Byte value
0x22 = 34
RFC 3986 class
unsafe
UTF-8 bytes
1

Where you will see it

  • JSON in query strings: filter=%7B%22status%22%3A%22open%22%7D.
  • Exact-match search phrases: q=%22exact%20match%22.
  • Output of every standard encoding function, which all encode the double quote.

What goes wrong

  • %7B%22 decodes to {" and is the start of a JSON object. Decode the whole value to read the JSON.
  • A raw double quote inside an HTML href can end the attribute early. Always encode quotes in URLs you write into HTML.

Decoded examples

EncodedDecodes toWhat it isOpen in the decoder
filter=%7B%22status%22%3A%22open%22%7Dfilter={"status":"open"}A JSON object in a query parameter.Open in decoder
q=%22exact%20match%22q="exact match"A quoted search phrase.Open in decoder

How each language encodes "

Outputs below come from running each function, not from documentation. “Kept” means the function leaves the character as it is. Compare every character across every function.

LanguageFunctionOutput for "
JavaScriptencodeURIComponent%22
JavaScriptencodeURI%22
JavaScriptURLSearchParams%22
JavaScriptescape (deprecated)%22
Pythonquote (default safe='/')%22
Pythonquote (safe='')%22
Pythonquote_plus%22
C#Uri.EscapeDataString%22
C#WebUtility.UrlEncode%22
C#HttpUtility.UrlEncode%22

Questions

What does %7B%22 mean?

%7B is { and %22 is a double quote, so %7B%22 is the start of a JSON object such as {"name":.... The value is JSON that was percent-encoded to travel in a URL.

Can a URL contain a double quote?

Not unencoded. A double quote is outside the characters RFC 3986 allows in a URL, so it must be written %22.

Decode or encode your own text

Paste anything containing %22. It runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

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Related characters

%3A

colon

%3A is the percent-encoded colon (:).

%2C

comma

%2C is the percent-encoded comma (,).

%3D

equals sign

%3D is the percent-encoded equals sign (=).

All percent-encoded characters · Full percent-encoding table · What is URL encoding?

Behaviour checked against RFC 3986, the WHATWG URL Standard and MDN. Updated November 4, 2026

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