Encoding of ampersands in GET requests

Well I’ve just learn’t something new!

Basically, the following HTML is incorrect:

<a href="http://www.example.com/index.cgi?foo=bar&moo=poo">Click me</a>

and the following is correct:

<a href="http://www.example.com/index.cgi?foo=bar&amp;moo=poo">Click me</a>

According to this article you should encode ampersands in querystrings (when in an HTML document) as entitiy references (&). I can now go to bed a happy man

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3 Responses to “Encoding of ampersands in GET requests”

perlworld
June 21st, 2005 09:27
1

yeah, I fell foul of that one when i tried to get past the w3c validator !
Dean Cruddace
June 24th, 2005 01:11
2

Annoying when you code 50 pages in notepad to find that out!
marky moo
July 12th, 2005 10:06
3

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_12 for more.