JavaScript String toLocaleLowerCase() Method

The String.prototype.toLocaleLowerCase() method in JavaScript is a Standard built-in object which returns the calling string value converted to a lowercase letter on the basis of the host’s current locale. 

Syntax:

str.toLocaleLowerCase()
str.toLocaleLowerCase(locale) 

Parameters:

• locale: It is an optional parameter and it indicates the locale to be used to convert to lowercase according to any locale-specific case mappings.

Returns Value:

This method returns a string of lowercase letters. 

Exceptions:

This method gives two kinds of errors, which are as follows:

• RangeError: If the locale argument isn’t a valid language tag.
• TypeError: If an array element isn’t of type string.

The below examples illustrate the String.prototype.toLocaleLowerCase() method in JavaScript: 

Example 1: In this example, we will convert the uppercase string to a lowercase string and console it using the String.prototype.toLocaleLowerCase() method in JavaScript.

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// Input string
let gfg = 'GeeKsForGeekS';

// Output with lowercase method
console.log('EN-US: ' + gfg.toLocaleLowerCase('en-US'));
console.log('TR: ' + gfg.toLocaleLowerCase('tr'));

// New input string
let gfg1 = new String("String.prototype.toLocaleLowerCase()");

// Display output
console.log('Result: ' + gfg1.toLocaleLowerCase());

Output

EN-US: geeksforgeeks
TR: geeksforgeeks
Result: string.prototype.tolocalelowercase()

Example 2: In this example, we will convert the uppercase string to a lowercase string and console it using the String.prototype.toLocaleLowerCase() method in JavaScript.

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console.log('ALPHABET'.toLocaleLowerCase());

console.log('\u0130'.toLocaleLowerCase('tr') === 'i');
console.log('\u0130'.toLocaleLowerCase('en-US') === 'i');

let geeks = ['tr', 'TR', 'tr-TR', 'tr-u-co-search', 'tr-x-turkish'];
console.log('\u0130'.toLocaleLowerCase(geeks) === 'i');

Output

alphabet
true
false
true

We have a complete list of Javascript String methods, to check those please go through this JavaScript String Complete Reference article.

Supported Browsers: The browsers supported by the String.prototype.toLocaleLowerCase() method are listed below:

• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• IE
• Opera
• Safari
• Edge