[thelist] Ampersands in URLs

> From: "Clive R Sweeney" <clive@designshift.com>
>
> A few of my pages have hyperlinks with URLs containing ampersands.
> This yields an "unknown entity" error in the W3C Validator. It's not a
> big deal, but just to tidy up, is there an easy way to escape the
> ampersand?

<a href="http://foo.bar/foo.asp?foo=bar&amp;bar=foo">feh</a>

just convert '&' to '&amp;'...

if you're pulling links in dynamically, use your server-side language
to encode the string -- in ASP, you could use server.HTMLEncode()...
most languages have a provision for handling this...

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