[thelist] Anchor Tag Encoding for Netscape 4.X

Sam Carter netwick at iness.com
Wed Oct 1 04:32:51 CDT 2003


When an anchor tag is written like so:

<a
href="../common/emailform.aspx?EmailTo=me at mydomain.com&amp;&amp;EmailSubject
=Question%20for%20you.">Send an Email.</a>

The blanks (%20) and special characters must be properly encoded - or
Netscape 4.X will generate the error

"The parameter is incorrect"

Modern browsers don't have this problem, but that just means they'll handle
non-conforming HTML.

My editor is Dreamweaver MX.  Is there any tool available that will take an
ordinary string and encode it properly so the resulting HTML is valid?

Sam




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