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jofitz
jofitz

Reputation: 471

Why is Facebook converting & to & in my Open Graph image meta-tag?

Facebook has stopped displaying my og:image meta-tag correctly. It was fine on Thursday and Friday, but not today.

My og:image uri includes ampersands which are definitely output as & (rather than &) - I have checked 'View Source' and even temporarily hardcoded a uri.

But when they go through Facebook's Open Graph Debugger (and presumably by Facebook itself because my posts have no images) they appear as &.

Here is a meta-tag from 'View Source' of my site: 

<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/xc/455365166.jpg?v=2&c=IWSAsset&k=2" />

Here is how it is read by the Facebook Open Graph Debugger: 

<meta property="og:image" content="http://example.com/xc/455365166.jpg?v=2&amp;c=IWSAsset&amp;k=2" />

Does anyone know why this should be? Has anyone else encountered the issue? Have Facebook changed anything in the past few days?

I have trawled through the Facebook API docs and a number of SO questions, but nothing matches my issue.

How can I resolve this? How can I stop Facebook converting my & to &amp;?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 888

Answers (1)

jofitz
jofitz

Reputation: 471

Erm, ok, it is working again today - I've not changed anything.

[shakes fist at Facebook]

Upvotes: 1

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