Re: ampersand in urls when using xhtml 1.0 strict

mark4asp wrote:

If I have, say:
<a href="../page1.aspx?a=1&amp;b=gonow">Go Now</a
in my html, on clicking the link, will FF give :
blah blah/page1.aspx?a=1&b=gonow
in the address bar?

It's not doing that for me. It gives
blah blah/page1.aspx?a=1&amp;b=gonow

Can you post a URL where that happens?

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Martin Honnen wrote:

mark4asp wrote:

If I have, say:
<a href="../page1.aspx?a=1&amp;b=gonow">Go Now</a
in my html, on clicking the link, will FF give :
blah blah/page1.aspx?a=1&b=gonow
in the address bar?

It's not doing that for me. It gives
blah blah/page1.aspx?a=1&amp;b=gonow

Can you post a URL where that happens?

I'm sorry. It is happening right now on my local web-server. This is an
asp.net 2.0 application I am running over microsoft's Cassini server
[the developer's 'baby' web-server - not IIS]. Even if it were live,
it's a subscription only site.

It's a puzzle alright. I tell asp.net to write an &amp; in the code
behind for the gridview (OnRowDataBound event). It gives me a &
But if I tell it to write an &amp; for the asp.net Repeater I get the
&amp; in the html with no problems. [ILLOGICAL]. The asp.net controls
shoudl be consistent!

FF consistently puts the &amp; in the address bar. [WRONG]

The validation software tells me the page with a '&' in the hrefs is OK
[WRONG]

So there are several wrong things going on here all at once.


I guess I should continue this in the asp.net forum.




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mark4asp wrote:

Martin Honnen wrote:

mark4asp wrote:

If I have, say:
<a href="../page1.aspx?a=1&amp;b=gonow">Go Now</a
in my html, on clicking the link, will FF give :
blah blah/page1.aspx?a=1&b=gonow
in the address bar?

It's not doing that for me. It gives
blah blah/page1.aspx?a=1&amp;b=gonow
Can you post a URL where that happens?

I'm sorry. It is happening right now on my local web-server. This is an
asp.net 2.0 application I am running over microsoft's Cassini server
[the developer's 'baby' web-server - not IIS]. Even if it were live,
it's a subscription only site.

It's a puzzle alright. I tell asp.net to write an &amp; in the code
behind for the gridview (OnRowDataBound event). It gives me a &
But if I tell it to write an &amp; for the asp.net Repeater I get the
&amp; in the html with no problems. [ILLOGICAL]. The asp.net controls
shoudl be consistent!

Wait a minute--it just hit me. I'm not that familiar with ASP.NET but I
know Visual Studio second-guesses the developer in certain ways. Have
you checked View Source in Firefox to see what's in the source code
being received by the browser? I suspect that when you put a link
control on an ASP page, it assumes you're entering the actual, unencoded
URL and *encodes it for you*. So if you're entering &amp;, it's
converting it to &amp;amp;. Check it and see.