I have a reacurring problem. I code nice standards compliant code only to have it fail due to ampersands within some of the hyperlink urls.
Does anyone know of a work around or hack for this.
Thanks
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I have a reacurring problem. I code nice standards compliant code only to have it fail due to ampersands within some of the hyperlink urls.
Does anyone know of a work around or hack for this.
Thanks
You should URL Encode the hyperlinks, so all characters are turned into a valid ASCII format and don’t contain any (X)HTML entities.
For C# use
HttpUtility.UrlEncode, for PHPurlencode, for JavaScriptencodeURI, etc… Finding the right method for the language you’re using shouldn’t be that hard.