- From: Randy Waki <rwaki144@whizbanglabs.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:30:19 -0600
- To: "HTML Tidy Mailing List" <html-tidy@w3.org>
The HTML document below has an <a> element whose href attribute has been
split across two lines (the URL in the original document was unusually long
and had evidently wrapped to the next line). 7-Jul-99 Tidy converts the
line break into an unencoded space, resulting in a broken link. Both IE 5
and Netscape 4.5 (tested on Windows NT) ignore the line break but not the
space. A secondary problem is that spaces should be encoded as %20 in URLs.
I can see how fixing this problem may be difficult since Tidy might have to
distinguish between attributes that are URLs and those that are not.
-------- Example HTML document --------
<html>
<head>
<title>x</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://www.x.com/ind
ex.html">Wrapped URL</a>
</body>
</html>
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Randy
Received on Thursday, 22 July 1999 20:30:55 UTC