how do i base64 encode and decode using javascript?

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Published on 2010-05-12T15:25:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 1:04 UTC
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Hi

just wondering if there are any methods in JavaScript that i can use to encode and decode a string using base64 encoding?

thank you

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