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Mr.K
Mr.K

Reputation: 73

Ampersands in hyperlinks cause W3C validation to fail

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

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2860

Answers (4)

Nilesh
Nilesh

Reputation: 1

CDATA works wonders where you have & in javascript strings..

Upvotes: -1

Ronald
Ronald

Reputation: 1815

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 PHP urlencode, for JavaScript encodeURI, etc... Finding the right method for the language you're using shouldn't be that hard.

Upvotes: 2

ceejayoz
ceejayoz

Reputation: 179994

I code nice standards compliant code only to have it fail due to ampersands within some of the hyperlink urls.

Unescaped ampersands in URLs (or anywhere else, if they're not part of an HTML entity!) aren't "nice standards compliant code".

Turn them into & and you can accurately claim to have done this.

Upvotes: 13

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 13226

Did you make them & in the links like this?

&

Upvotes: 5

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