RE: Query strings in links from Matej Cepl on 1999-06-11 (html-tidy@w3.org from April to June 1999)

From: Matej Cepl <Cepl@fpm.cz>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:17:46 +0100
To: html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <1318D78C9072D11195C9006094EA98A72C211E@ocesrv>

The problem is not in TIDY but in your HTML -- every sign & has to be
escaped as an HTML entity &amp; . Therefore your A tag should be rather
as follows:

 <A HREF="http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/bob?a=b&amp;c=d">Bob</A> 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joseph T. Voorhees III [SMTP:voorhees@sdd.hp.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 10, 1999 10:08 PM
> To:	html-tidy@w3.org
> Subject:	Query strings in links
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Tidy doesn't seem to like query strings in links that have
> multiple key/value pairs like:
> 
>  <A HREF="http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/bob?a=b&c=d">Bob</A>
> 
> A warning is produced for this...
> 
>  Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&c"
> 
> Joe
> voorhees@sdd.hp.com

Received on Friday, 11 June 1999 03:23:49 UTC