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Topher Hunt
Topher Hunt

Reputation: 4803

Sublime Text: in HTML links having PHP snippets, ampersands highlight red?

I'm writing what I understand to be pretty standard PHP/HTML code. Imitating a rough RESTful architecture, inspired by Rails, in PHP. My pages contain lots of dynamically generated links that are structured like this:

<a href='objects_list.php?coursekey=<? echo $coursekey; ?>&delete_section=<? 
  echo $row['key']; ?>'>delete</a>

As you can see, the link has two URL variables, each of which is set based on PHP variables that the page knows about. Pretty common, right?

I recently moved to Sublime Text 2 as my primary development environment. I think it's fantastic and my development process is much improved. But Sublime's syntax highlighting seems to get confused by the ampersands (&) that separate URL variables in any links. It highlights each ampersand in red as though thinking I made an error.

Any idea why? Any way to make Sublime recognize that links often need to have ampersands in them?

EDIT: This happens whether or not PHP fragments are contained in the link href. Sublime just seems to mistrust ampersands in links...?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1147

Answers (2)

Bhavin
Bhavin

Reputation: 71

While as Marcel Korpel pointed out, its generally a good idea to replace & by &amp;, its a pain when using something like angular. You can remove the rule to highlight illegal ampersands by editing sublime_directory/Packages/HTML.sublime-package/HTML.tmLanguage and commenting these lines (searching for ampersand should do the trick)

<dict>
    <key>match</key>
    <string>&amp;</string>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>invalid.illegal.bad-ampersand.html</string>
</dict>

Restart sublime to see the effect. Tested on Sublime Text 3

Upvotes: 1

Marcel Korpel
Marcel Korpel

Reputation: 21763

Within an href attribute, ampersand characters should be represented by its HTML entity &amp;, otherwise the HTML validator will complain. Sublime Text correctly marks a single & without an entity as erroneous.

See also What other characters beside ampersand (&) should be encoded in HTML href/src attributes? and Do I encode ampersands in <a href...>?

Upvotes: 5

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