DW MX replaces & in url. why?

#1

Hi,

I am using Dreamweaver MX. I tried to replace & by & in links to get
my document validated by W3org/validator, but when saving the file
Dreamweaver replaces them again by a &.

What can I do about it?

Thanx,
Wim

#2

Wim Huls wrote:

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Hi,

I am using Dreamweaver MX. I tried to replace & by & in links to get
my document validated by W3org/validator, but when saving the file
Dreamweaver replaces them again by a &.

What can I do about it?

Non-alphanumeric characters, a space, or +, or & are illegal in file or
directory names. Maybe that's DW's means of nagging at you.

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#3

Linda Rathgeber-TMM wrote:

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Wim Huls wrote:

Hi,

I am using Dreamweaver MX. I tried to replace & by & in links to get
my document validated by W3org/validator, but when saving the file
Dreamweaver replaces them again by a &.

What can I do about it?

Non-alphanumeric characters, a space, or +, or & are illegal in file or
directory names. Maybe that's DW's means of nagging at you.

Thank you. I found a solution already. I replaced the & by &amp;.

Now the page validates.

Wim

#4

Wim Huls <wim.huls (AT) nospamhome (DOT) nl> wrote

Quote:

Hi,

I am using Dreamweaver MX. I tried to replace & by & in links to get
my document validated by W3org/validator, but when saving the file
Dreamweaver replaces them again by a &.

What can I do about it?

Thanx,
Wim

You don't want that changed in the URL/link. You want the content to
reflect &. The & is how strings are put together in many URL's.
I think you may be misunderstanding the message that W3org is giving
you.

#5

GregL wrote:

Quote:

Wim Huls <wim.huls (AT) nospamhome (DOT) nl> wrote

Hi,

I am using Dreamweaver MX. I tried to replace & by & in links to get
my document validated by W3org/validator, but when saving the file
Dreamweaver replaces them again by a &.

What can I do about it?

Thanx,
Wim

You don't want that changed in the URL/link. You want the content to
reflect &. The & is how strings are put together in many URL's.
I think you may be misunderstanding the message that W3org is giving
you.

I don't think I misunderstood things. I quote from
<http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp>:

"To avoid problems with both validators and browsers, always use &
in place of &:"

Wim

#6

Have you tried %26amp ?

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